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| Democratic,US president (35th) that served 2 years before his assassination |
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| JFK's vice president that served after his assassination and also won next election. Created the Good Society ideal |
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| US Supreme Court Chief Justice that ruled "one person one vote" in Baker vs. Carr |
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| Black American leader who advocated for equal rights and nonviolence in the 1960's civil rights movement before his assassination |
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| African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist during the 60's civil rights movement |
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| Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement who was the first leader leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Later the United Farm Workers (UFW) |
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| Female, american marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement |
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| Female writer who was prominent in the 1960's civil rights movement and whose book The Feminine Mystique sparked American feminism. Also first president of National Organization for Women |
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| American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum. She opposed feminism and the Equal Rights Movement |
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| Republican that grew from military leader in WW2 to US President (37th) who was only president to resign |
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| set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President LBJ created to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. |
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| social insurance program administered by the United States government under Great Society, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over |
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| the United States health program created under Great Society for people and families with low incomes and resources |
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. |
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| Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 |
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| abolished the National Origins Formula that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. |
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| principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s that protected black students from violence during school integration |
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| U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the new law of integrated public transportation |
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| Voter Education Project/Freedom Summer |
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| ampaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. The project started violent riots in the south and required the state National Guard to provide protection to the blacks |
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| large political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African Americans that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony |
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| 3 marches in 1965 launched by blacks promoting voting rights |
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| ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public |
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| African-American revolutionary leftist organization that achieved national and international impact through its deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics |
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| Native American activist organization in the United States that protested for Indian religious freedom, equal rights, and more |
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| labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) that changed workers rights |
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| a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left |
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| series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. |
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| agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress proposed by Nixon |
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| Government agency working to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and occupational fatality by issuing and enforcing standards for workplace safety and health. |
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| enforce clean air standards has contributed to an improvement in human health and longer life spans |
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| largest feminist organization in the United States created in 1966 |
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| Equal rights act proposed by Alice Paul but failed to pass both houses of congress in 1923, but passed in 1972 |
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| Supreme Court case that ruled it was a womans decision to have an abortion but the right must be balanced against states reasons for regulating abortions |
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