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| 13505655053 | Beatnik Movement | a social and artistic movement of the 1950s stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture |  | 0 |
| 13505656818 | Betty Friedan | 1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique". |  | 1 |
| 13505659760 | Billie Jean King | American tennis star, has been an advocate against sexism (wanted equal pay for women and men) in sports and society. She is known for the "The Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, in which she defeated 55-year-old Bobby Riggs, a former Wimbledon men's singles champion. |  | 2 |
| 13505661960 | Black Panther Party | Organization of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights and encourage cooperation within the black community. The Panthers represented a growing dissatisfaction with the non-violent wing of the civil rights movement, and signaled a new direction to that movement after the legislative victories of 1964 and 1965. |  | 3 |
| 13505666832 | Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled the precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregate |  | 4 |
| 13505672042 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places. | 5 | |
| 13505673400 | Credibility Gap | When the public does not trust statements made by the government; also used to refer to American public's growing distrust of statements made by the government during the Vietnam War |  | 6 |
| 13505679183 | Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | A constitutional amendment originally introduced in Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Despite public support, the amendment failed to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the state legislatures and was never ratified |  | 7 |
| 13505681747 | Fannie Lou Hamer | (1917-1977) became a SNCC field worker in 1963; helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; left SNCC in 1966 when the organization embraced Black Power but remained active in the civil rights movement in 1971; helped found the National Women's Political Caucus |  | 8 |
| 13505686691 | Feminism | The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men | 9 | |
| 13505688560 | Freedom Rides | 1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states' compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses |  | 10 |
| 13505690424 | Freedom Summer (1964) | a voter registration drive in Mississippi spearheaded by the collaboration of civil rights groups; the campaign drew the activism of thousands of black and white civil rights workers, many of whom were students from the north, and was marred by the abduction and murder of three such workers at the hands of white racists |  | 11 |
| 13505693165 | Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a defendant in a felony trial must be provided a lawyer free of charge if the defendant cannot afford one. |  | 12 |
| 13505694867 | Gloria Steinem | An American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. |  | 13 |
| 13505696800 | Great Society | President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. |  | 14 |
| 13505698312 | Lavender Scare | Dimension of the red scare of the 1950s that targeted the homosexual community as disloyal because of their perceived lack of morality and as security risks because communist influences could use blackmailing threats of exposing closeted homosexuals for American intelligence. |  | 15 |
| 13505700452 | Little Rock Nine (1957) | African American students admitted to Central High School, governor of Arkansas, prevent African American students, from attending the school and sent the Arkansas National Guard to the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to school, and school was integrated. |  | 16 |
| 13505702037 | Malcolm X | renamed himself X to signify the loss of his African heritage; became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter; his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on separatist and nationalist impulses to achieve true independence and equality |  | 17 |
| 13505708513 | Mapp v. Ohio (1961) | Established exclusionary rule; illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in court; Warren Court's judicial activism. |  | 18 |
| 13505710459 | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | August 28, 1963, rally by civil rights organizations in Washington, D.C., that brought increased national attention to the movement. |  | 19 |
| 13505712916 | Martin Luther King Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. |  | 20 |
| 13505714011 | Medicare and Medicaid (1965) | Health care initiatives of President Lyndon Johnson. Medicare provided the elderly with universal compulsory medical insurance financed largely through Social Security taxes. Medicaid authorized federal grants to supplement state-paid medical care for low-income people under sixty-five. Both initiatives were passed as amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935. |  | 21 |
| 13505717604 | Miranda v. Arizona (1966) | The court ruled that those subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and their right to remain silent. |  | 22 |
| 13505718749 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in bus system of Montgomery, Alabama. |  | 23 |
| 13505720177 | NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) | An agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico |  | 24 |
| 13505722445 | National Organization for Women (NOW) | Founded in 1966; called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. NOW also championed the legalization of abortion and passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. |  | 25 |
| 13505724137 | National Urban League | Formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, is a nonpartisan Civil Rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It also helped African Americans moving from the South to find jobs and homes. |  | 26 |
| 13505727950 | United States v. Nixon (1974) | The 1974 case in which the Supreme Court unanimously held that the doctrine of executive privilege was implicit in the Constitution but could not be extended to protect documents relevant to criminal prosecutions |  | 27 |
| 13505747395 | Phyllis Schlafly | Anti-feminist who led the campaign to defeat the ERA claiming it would undermine the American family |  | 28 |
| 13505748438 | Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | A 1978 Supreme Court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race. |  | 29 |
| 13505752360 | Roe v. Wade (1973) | The court legalized abortion by ruling that state laws could not restrict it during the first three months of pregnancy. Based on 4th Amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons. |  | 30 |
| 13505757410 | Sexual Revolution | the widespread changes in men's and women's roles and a greater public acceptance of sexuality as a normal part of social development during the 1960s and 1970s |  | 31 |
| 13505762050 | SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) | national group of student activists that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movements and Anti-Vietnam movements of the 1960s and 1970s |  | 32 |
| 13505764517 | Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) | civil rights activist that was active in the Black Power movement, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party |  | 33 |
| 13505771479 | Tallahassee Bus Boycott (1956) | Started as a protest against segregation and the unfair seating arrangements of busses. It started due to the arrest of two female students from FAMU, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, who refused to give up their seats in the "whites only" section of the bus. They were charged with 'inciting riots." |  | 34 |
| 13505774634 | Title IX (1972) | Forbids gender discrimination in federally subsidized education programs |  | 35 |
| 13505776196 | Thurgood Marshall | NAACP legal counsel and the first African-American Supreme Court Justice |  | 36 |
| 13505777150 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | 1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised African Americans |  | 37 |
| 13505782597 | War on Poverty | Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address. A new Office of Economic Opportunity oversaw a variety of programs to help the poor, including the Job Corps and Head Start. |  | 38 |
| 13505785671 | War Powers Act | Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period. |  | 39 |
