PRESENTATION OUTLINE
SOUTHERN STRATEGY
The Southern strategy was Richard Nixon's campaign strategy to win the Southern United States for the Republican Party during the 1968 and 1972 elections, effectively throwing out any social clout the GOP had right out the window. It was the most significant political alignment in the US since the "New Deal Coalition," and one that still continues to this day.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of "equal protection of the laws" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the promise of the 14th Amendment. In response, all three branches of the federal government--as well as the public at large--debated a fundamental constitutional question: Does the Constitution's prohibition of denying equal protection always ban the use of racial, ethnic, or gender criteria in an attempt to bring social justice and social benefits?
THE ORANGEBURG MASSACRE
At 10:33 p.m. on the night of Feb. 8, 1968, eight to ten seconds of police gunfire left three young black men dying and 27 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg.
DIXIECRATS
The Dixiecrats were members of the States' Rights Democratic Party, which splintered
from the Democratic Party in 1948.
Strom Thurmond
The faction consisted of malcontent southern delegates to the Democratic Party who protested the insertion of a ci plank in the party platform and U.S. president Harry S. Truman's advocacy of that plank. Before the convention southern delegates were dismayed by Truman's 1948 executive order to desegregate the armed forces. With that backdrop many southern delegates were already concerned as they headed to the 1948 Democratic convention.
A Right to Work law secures the right of employees to decide for themselves whether or not to join or financially support a union. However, employees who work in the railway or airline industries are not protected by a Right to Work law, and employees who work on a federal enclave may not be.
RIGHT TO WORK STATE
FRIENDSHIP NINE
The Friendship Nine was a group of African American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961.
