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- - - - SNCC(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
        
        Sit-in movements forced integration
      - CORE(Congress of Racial Equality)
        
        freedom rides
        
        desegregation of buses
        
        Rosa Parks inspired
      - SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
        
        citizen-education (organized by Ella Baker)
      - Brown vs. Board of Education
        
        legal desegregation of schools
      - Little Rock, Arkansaw desegregation of school, national guard was called (Eisenhower Administration, before Kenedy)
      - Federal Court demanded the admittance of James Meredith as the first black student in the University of Mississippi, white protests and kennedy sent national guard
      - March on Washington
        
        Led by MLK
        
        I have a Dream speech
        
        in support of civil rights proposals by Kennedy
        
        LBJ had to pass it after Kennedy's assasination
        
        the most comprhensive civil rights bill in nation's history
      - Freedom Summer 1964
        
        focused on voting rights
        
        resulted in a violent response from southern whites
        
        produced the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
        
        year later in 1965, Selma, Alabama television coverage on brutal attack on voting demonstrators
        
        pushed LBJ to win passage for the Civil Rights / Voting Rights Act of 1965 (protection for blacks to vote)
        
        The movement changed direction from legal segregation to practicing segregation
        
        MLK was assasinated trying to campaign the changing movement in Chicago
        
        1965, Watts Riots, first large race riot since end of WWII
        
        caused an increase in doubting white supporters of the CR movement
        
        as a result blacks also became disallusioned and believed in Black Power
        
        CR movement became divided, were seen as radical
- - - - The new New Deal "New Frontier"
      - Assasinated in 1963
      - VP and future President Lyndon B. Johnson
        
        believed in active use of power
        
        The "Great Society"
        
        Medicare (all elderly) and Medicaid(disabilties)
        
        part of the assault on poverty
        
        The war on poverty was centered around the OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity), created new good programs
        
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        elimination of poverty and social inustice
        
        coalition builder (combined action between parties)
        
        Immigration Act of 1965, got rid of national origins, just put a limit
  - - - Berlin Wall, symbol of conflict
      - Cuban Missile Crisis
        
        Kennedy ordered a blockade of cuba
        
        Soviets agreed to move it if the US agreed not to invade Cuba
  - - - LBJ's foreign policy centered around Vietnam
      - Intervened in the Dominican Republic to stop a communist government