1. Lyndon B. Johnson

2. Great Society
Great Society – President Johnson’s legislative programs that declared a “war on poverty”
More than 60 poverty and welfare programs were passed between

3. Programs by Johnson
Medicare – a medical insurance programs set up for elderly
Head Start – a medical insurance program set up for those living below the poverty line
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) – cabinet position in charge of public housing and developing model cities

4. Civil Rights Movement
Civil Disobedience - a strategy for causing social change by means of non-violent resistance to unfair law
Ex: March on Washington
MLK was most famous advocate for civil disobedience but not everyone in the Movement believed nonviolence could affect change

5. Brown V. Board Of Education
Brown vs. Board Of Education (1954) - Supreme Court decision that segregated schools were unequal and must desegregate, mandates integration but no timetable
Overturns “separate but equal” implemented by Plessey vs. Ferguson

6. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federal law that barred discrimination in employment and public facilities and prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender
Also desegregated public accommodations

7. 24th Amendment
24th Amendment (1964) – increased the ability of blacks to vote by eliminating poll taxes

8. Malcolm X
Malcolm X- championed black separatism and called for freedom to be brought by any means necessary
Black Power - an African American movement that focused on gaining control of economic and political power to achieve equal rights, by force if necessary

9. Chicano Movement
United Farm Workers of America (1962) - formed to help Mexican-American workers get fair treatment
Cesar Chavez - was concerned with the discrimination toward Mexican Americans and founded the UFWA

10. “Women’s Movement”
Movement to get women equal pay and to get society to treat women as equals in terms of pay, political rights, right to their bodies, access to equal education and opportunities in the workplace

11. The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Book written by Betty Friedan that described women’s feeling on being in the house and reignited the women’s movement
Friedan was a victim of the false conformity and 1950s suppression by the government because she has a long history of activism in the 1950s but denies this history – why?

12. National Organization for Women (NOW)
Organization that promoted equal and more opportunities for women in education and the work place