https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7 en-us 2022-12-09 07:03:27 UTC 2022-12-09 07:19:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415298783 Taking up Kennedy's mantle, President Lyndon Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act, partially as a tribute to Kennedy. These two laws had dramatic impacts on American politics.]]> 2022-12-09 07:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415298783 https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415299687 Since the 1930s, lawyers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had strategized to bring local lawsuits to court, arguing that separate was not equal and that every child, regardless of race, deserved a first-class education. These lawsuits were combined into the landmark Brown v.]]> 2022-12-09 07:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415299687 01130072 https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300032 The end of the Civil War meant the slaves were also freeded, however, this did not stop the discrimination Black people felt after the war.]]> 2022-12-09 07:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300032 https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300333 Kennedy took advantage of increased Cold War tension by emphasizing a perceived "missile gap" between the United States and Soviet Union. He argued that under the Republicans, the Soviets had developed a major advantage in the numbers of nuclear missiles.]]> 2022-12-09 07:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300333 01130072 https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300622 Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.]]> 2022-12-09 07:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415300622 01130072 https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415301875 In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, leading to the creation of the NAACP. ]]> 2022-12-09 07:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/01130072/k6zipjag3e2jlse7/wish/2415301875