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Tactics adopted by young civil rights activists, beginning in 1960, of demanding service at lunch counters or public accommodations and refusing to leave if denied access; marked the beginning of the most militant phase of the civil rights struggle.

• Boycotts

• Sit-In

• Civil Disobedience

• Non-Violence

Organization founded in 1960 to coordinate civil rights sit-ins and other forms of grassroots protest

• SNCC

• SCLC

• CORE

• NAACP

Bus journeys challenging racial segregation in the South in 1961

• Bus Boycott

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Summer

• March on Washington

Civil rights demonstration on August 28, 1963, where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

• Selma to Montgomery March

• March on Washington

• Birmingham Campaign

• Albany Campaign

U.S. mission in which the CIA, hoping to inspire a revolt against Fidel Castro, sent 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland on April 17, 1961; the mission was a spectacular failure

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iran-Contra Crisis

• Bay of Havana

• Bay of Pigs

Tense confrontation caused when the United States discovered Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba in October 1962; the U.S.-Soviet confrontation was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war

• Cuban Embargo

• Cuban Invasion

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Law that outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Equal Rights Act

Law passed in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma-to-Montgomery March in 1965; it authorized federal protection of the right to vote and permitted federal enforcement of minority voting rights in individual counties, mostly in the South

• Voting Rights Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Jim Crow Laws

1965 law that eliminated the national origins quota system for immigration established by laws in 1921 and 1924; led to radical change in the origins of immigrants to the United States, with Asians and Latin Americans outnumbering Europeans

• Warner Act

• Smoot Hawley Act

• Taft Hartley Act

• Hart Celler Act

Term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union address, in which he proposed legislation to address problems of voting rights, poverty, diseases, education, immigration, and the environment

• Fair Deal

• New Deal

• Great Society

• Square Deal