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How did civil rights activists react towards segregated restaurants and lunch counters?
With sit -ins.
This group was responsible for many sit - ins, sleep - ins and read - ins during the Civil Rights movement.
The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
What was the main goal of the March on Washington in 1963?
To pressure JFK to follow through on his campaign promises regarding civil rights.
He opposed discrimination against blacks by nonviolent resistance. Nobel Prize winner in 1964.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This political group was formed in 1966 and fought against capitalism and white racism.
The Black Panthers
This is a refusal to purchase goods and services from a company as a form of protest
A boycott
Helped organize and lead the United Farm Workers group to expose the poor treatment of farm workers.
Cesar Chavez
This prohibited laws that discriminated against voters based on their race.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This would eventually help end segregation in education and public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Southern Democrats who opposed the advances made by the civil rights movement.
Dixiecrats
This divided Vietnam into communist north and anti-communist Republic of Vietnam in the south.
17th Parallel
This gave President Johnson the authority to send troops into Vietnam with out Congress' approval.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
26th Amendment
This policy's goal was to transition conflict in Vietnam from US troops to South Vietnamese troops.
Vietnamization
This was established to prevent "future Vietnams" and essentially revoked the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
War Powers Act
This was written by Rachel Carson and helped catapult environmentalism during the 1960s.
Silent Spring
