Late 1960s America — key features?
Peak civil rights, radical shifts, MLK assassination.
Civil Rights Movement origins — era?
Post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
Jim Crow laws — purpose?
Enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Brown v Topeka — ruling?
Segregation in schools declared unconstitutional.
NAACP — founding year?
1909.
Segregated schools — legal basis?
‘Separate but equal’ doctrine.
MLK assassination — date?
April 4, 1968.
Gulf of Tonkin incident — year?
1964.
Operation Rolling Thunder — start?
February 1965.
Tet Offensive — date?
January 31, 1968.
Vietnamization — Nixon’s policy?
Train South Vietnamese, reduce U.S. troops.
Détente — meaning?
Relaxation of Cold War tensions.
Outer Space Treaty — year?
1967.
Apollo 11 — landing date?
July 20, 1969.
Moon landing broadcast — viewers?
Approximately 530 million.
Civil Rights Act 1964 — bans?
Workplace discrimination, segregation in public spaces.
Voting Rights Act — target?
Discrimination preventing Black voting.
Fair Housing Act — year?
1968.
Little Rock — event?
Nine Black students integrated Central High, 1957.
Black Power Movement — goal?
Racial pride and economic independence.
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1. What best describes the late 1960s shift in the American civil rights struggle?
2. Which event is associated with the late 1960s civil rights peak and became a major symbol of the period?
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