PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1. John F Kennedy - A democratic, Catholic, and handsome president during the Civil Rights movement, the Space Race, and the Cold War.
2. Richard Nixon - The opponent of JFK, who was Ike's Vice President, that lost because everyone thought that JFK looked and spoke better.
3. Lyndon B Johnson - JFK's Vice President, who soon becomes President after JFK's death, who created the Great Society programs.
4. Nikita Khrushchev - leader of the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War, who was more passive.
5. Peace Corp - A program created by JFK that aids developing nations.
6. Job Corp - A program created to provide eligible young men and women with an opportunity to gain the experience they need to begin a career or advance to higher education.
7. Bay of pigs -The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
8. Cuban Missile Crisis -A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about Soviet missiles being developed in Cuba.
9. Berlin Wall - The barrier between East and West Berlin to keep east Berliners from escaping.
10. Warren Court -the Supreme Court of the United States during the time when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
11. Miranda Rights -a right to silence warning given by police to criminal suspects in police custody before they are arrested.
12. Great Society - a set of domestic programs in the created by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, its main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
13. Medicare -A federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older.
14. Medicaid -A social health care program for families and individuals with low income and limited resources.
15. NASA -A program created in the US by JFK, to give show that the US was making advances in the Space Race.
16. Immigration Act 1965 -The Act that abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.
17. Title IX -No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
18. Martin L King Jr -An American Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
19. Thurgood Marshall -an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and its first African-American justice.
20. Malcolm X -An American Muslim minister and human rights activist, who didn't believe in passive protesting.
21. James Farmer -A civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr.
22. Montgomery Bus Boycotts -Boycotters organized a carpool system and had to walk long distances, Boycotting buses, MLK and others were arrested for doing so.
23. Little Rock 9 - students that won a court decision to attend an all white high school, the governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent them from going to school, which went against the President.
24. Brown v Board of Education -A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
25. 24th Amendment -The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
26. Civil Rights Act 1964 -prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, signed by President Lyndon Johnson .
27. UC vs Bakke -The Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process, but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances.
28. Feminine Mystique - A book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
29. United Farm Workers -A union for farm workers, primarily in California, founded by Cesar Chavez, who wanted better working conditions and pay.
30. Cesar Chavez -The leader of the United Farm workers union
31. American Indian Movement -Due to low income, high unemployment, discrimination, limited education, and short life expectancy Indians created AIM to protection their legal rights and autonomy over tribal areas and the restoration of lands that they believed had been illegally seized.
32. Stonewall Inn Riots -A raid of the Stonewall Bar which turned into a movement of the gay community, regarded by many as history’s first major protest on behalf of equal rights for homosexuals.
