EOC Notecards 230-257

Brought attention to the movement by broadcasting the equalities and harsh treatment of African Americans into living rooms around the world

• Nixon Kennedy Debates

• 1969 Moon Landing

• TV coverage of Vietnam

• TV coverage of Civil RIghts

Affordable home computers first produced in the late 70s by Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak. Founded Apple Computer in 1976. The ease of access to information and processing power transformed the workplace.

• iPad

• iPhone

• Personal Computer

• Televisions

First African American player in Major League Baseball

• Muhammad Ali

• Jesse Owens

• Joe Louis

• Jackie Robinson

Became president after FDR died. Gave order to drop the atomic bombs. Integrated the army huge step for civil rights movement

• Jimmy Carter

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Lyndon Johnson

overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that segregation based on race was illegal

• Roe v. Wade

• Dred Scott

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Brown v. Board

Baptist minister and Civil Rights leader. Noted orator. Founder of the SCLC, supported nonviolent resistance and peaceful demonstration. Assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ra, Nobel Peace Prize

• John Lewis

• Malcolm X

• A Phillip Randolph

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speech given my MLK during the August 1963 in Washington, DC. Expressed his hope for the future for equal rights

• Letters from a Birmingham Jail

• I Have a Dream

• Speech in Montgomery, AL

• Letters from an Atlanta Jail

Major Civil Rights victory. Required uniform standards of voting. Made racial segregation and discrimination of public places illegal and discrimination of federally funded jobs

• Desegregation of the armed forces

• Brown v. Board

• Civil Right Act 1964

• Voting Rights Act 1965

Authorized use of federal voting registrars. Prevented states from election laws without permission of the federal government

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• Voting Rights Act 1965

• Brown v. Board

• Freedom Riders Act

This court ruled from 1954-1969. Was liberal and dedicated to extending and protecting rights of citizens. Several landmark decisions

• The Tawney Court

• The Marshall Court

• The Warren Court

• The Rehnquist Court