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MLK Jr.
JFK
Lyndon B Johnson

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Political/Laws
Supreme Court Challenges
Peaceful Marches
Nonviolent Demonstrations

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Southern states still enforced poll taxes, and the supreme court found them to be legal in earlier decades

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1397 Breedlove v. Suttles (Supreme court rules poll taxes constitutional)
1966 Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (Reverses Breedlove v. Suttles)
24th Amendment passed
1964 attack on protesters by state troopers, murder of voting rights activists in Mississippi
Bloody Sunday (1965)

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MLK Jr.
Little Rock Nine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ

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Legal Challenges
Military Enforcement of Law
Protests
Marches
Sit-ins

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Southern politicians oppose legislation for desegregation or equal treatment. In the South, racist attitudes lead to unequal societal treatment.

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Brown v. Board of Education
Little Rock Nine
Albany Movement (1961)
March on Washington (1963)
Civil RIghts Act of 1964

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Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

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MLK Jr.
JFK
LBJ
Rosa Parks
Malcom X
Whitney M. Young Jr.

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Boycotts
Sit-ins
Marches
Peaceful Demonstrations
Unions/Political Pressure
Strikes

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In the South, Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans, preventing them from accessing equal education and equal rights. Other minorities faced similar challenges as well, and were outcast from society on the basis of something they could not change.

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March on Washington (1963)
National Urban League (Organization, not event)
Birmingham Campaign (1963)
Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964- prevented discrimination in the workplace based on race, religion, sex, nationality, or color

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JFK
LBJ
MLK Jr.
Rosa Parks

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Legal Challenges
Boycotts
Sit-ins
Marches
Peaceful Protests
Freedom Rides

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KKK in the South/Racist Attitudes
Southern politicians blocked civil rights bills

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Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
March on Washington (1963)
Albany Movement (1961)

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Brown v. Board of Education
Segregation is unconstitutional
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

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Marsha P Johnson
Sylvia Rivera
Harvey Milk

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Organizations (STAR, Mattachine Society)
Gay Bars/Secret Hangouts
Riots
Protests
Sit-ins
Marches

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Homosexuality is declared a mental illness by the APA
Dwight Eisenhower bans LGBT from the workplace in Exec. Order 10450

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Stonewall Riots
One, Inc vs Oleson (LGBT newspaper)
1962- Illinois repeals sodomy laws

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1973
APA removes homosexuality from mental illness list
1962
Illinois repeals sodomy laws

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Betty Friedan
Shirley Chisholm
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem

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Protests
Strikes
Political Pressure
Campaigns
Newspapers
Marches

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Women do not receive equal pay in the workplace
Politics are a male dominated space
Women do not receive equal education
There are not equal opportunities, so women have less power to create change

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Equal Pay Act- 1963
Roe v. Wade
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women report (founded 1963)
FDA approves birth control pill (1961)
The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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Title VII added to Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ amends Executive Order 11246

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Ceasar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Rodolfo Gonzalez

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Non-violent protests
Unionizing
Boycotts
Marches

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Police Brutality towards Protesters
Lack of Union Rights
Lack of public support for Mexican Americans
Lack of political representation for Mexican-American farm workers

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Hernandez v. Texas
California Grape Boycott

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Greater Latin American cultural unification, greater cultural identity for Latin Americans
Better wages, better working conditions, and more representation and education for farm workers and Mexican Americans

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Marsha P Johnson
Sylvia Rivera
Harvey Milk

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Organizations (STAR, Mattachine Society)
Gay Bars/Secret Hangouts
Riots
Protests
Sit-ins
Marches
Picket Lines
Newspapers

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Homosexuality is declared a mental illness by the APA
Dwight Eisenhower bans LGBT from the workplace in Exec. Order 10450

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Stonewall Riots
One, Inc vs Oleson (LGBT newspaper)
1962- Illinois repeals sodomy laws
Black Panthers leader openly supports LGBT/Gay Liberation

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1973
APA removes homosexuality from mental illness list
1962
Illinois repeals sodomy laws
2020
Bostock v. Clayton County
1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT community

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Congress passes the 24th Amendment in 1962, outlawing the poll tax for voting requirements.
Congress passes Voting Rights Act in 1965, outlawing discriminatory practices in voting.