1960s Civil Rights and Cold War

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Course Outline

  1. Late 1960s America
  2. Civil Rights Movement origins
  3. Segregation and Jim Crow laws
  4. NAACP and Brown v Topeka
  5. Civil rights leaders and protests
  6. Vietnam War escalation
  7. Antiwar protests and Tet Offensive
  8. Vietnamization and U.S. withdrawal
  9. Détente and nuclear arms control
  10. The Space Race and Apollo program

1. Late 1960s America

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Civil rights movement peak : A period when the civil rights movement reached its highest intensity in the 1960s, with major pressure on segregation and voting rights.
  • Ku Klux Klan resurgence : A period when the Ku Klux Klan gained new membership after media and social backlash, fueling violent attacks and intimidation.
  • Great Migration : A movement of many African Americans from the South to northern states to escape violence and racism while still facing discrimination there.
  • Black Power Movement : A movement that pushed racial pride and economic independence and sometimes supported violence in response to systemic racism.

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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?

3. What was one major result of Reconstruction after the Civil War?

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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.

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