Civil Rights Vietnam War Review Civil rights Act

Civil Rights Vietnam War Review

Civil rights Act of 1964 Outlawed discrimination based on a persons race, origin, gender, or religion

Lyndon Johnson • • President 1963 -1969 Remembered for • Great Society programs • Vietnam War • Lyndon Baines Johnson moved quickly to establish himself in the office of the Presidency. Despite his conservative voting record in the Senate, Johnson soon reacquainted himself with his liberal roots. LBJ sponsored the largest reform agenda since Roosevelt's New Deal. • The aftershock of Kennedy's assassination provided a climate for Johnson to complete the unfinished work of JFK's New Frontier. He had eleven months before the election of 1964 to prove to American voters that he deserved a chance to be President in his own right. • Two very important pieces of legislation were passed. First, the Civil Rights Bill that JFK promised to sign was passed into law. The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination based on race and gender in employment and ending segregation in all public facilities.

Roy Benavidez • Heroically saved the lives of 8 people • What award did he win? Congressional Medal of Honor Master Sergeant Raul (Roy) Perez Benavidez (August 5, 1935 – November 29, 1998) was a former member of the United States Army Special Forces (Studies and Observations Group) and retired United States Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor (1981) for his valorous actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968.

Cuba and the 1960’s • Bay of Pigs • Failed invasion of Cuba • Done by U. S. trained Cuban exiles • 1961 was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade • Cuban Missile Crisis • Soviets building missile sites on Cuba • U. S. blockades Cuba • Peace agreements: • US promised not to invade Cuba • Soviets promised to destroy missile sites

• Voting Rights of 1965 • Eliminated discrimination in Voting Rights- Literacy tests

• Response to Vietnam War • Response to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Set guidelines to how President could manage troops • Limited Presidents powers War powers Act

• Response to Vietnam War • High School students were protesting by wearing an arm band • School’s response is to this is by banning arm bands • Court Decision: Freedom of Speech does not end when you go to the school Effect: Individual freedoms are protected Tinker vs. Des Moines School District

• Issue: Mexican Americans not allowed to serve on jury • Issue: Do Mexican Americans need protection under 14 th Amendment • Decision: That Mexican Americans are protected under 14 th Amendment Effect: Individual Freedoms are Protected under the Constitution Hernandez v. Texas

Berlin Airlift Peace Corps • Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948– 49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. • On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy issues Executive Order #10924, establishing the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State. The same day, he sent a message to Congress asking for permanent funding for the agency, which would send trained American men and women to foreign nations to assist in development efforts 1960 Groups

Founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation's first successful and largest farm workers union. This group fought to make economic and political opportunities for all nationalities. American Indian Movement The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American advocacy group in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty. The founders included Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Harold Goodsky, Eddie Benton. Banai, and a number of others in the Minneapolis Native American community. Russell Means, born Oglala Lakota, was an early leader in 1970 s protests. United Farm Workers Union

Change Stereotypes • The Chicano Movement encompassed a broad cross section of issues—from restoration of land grants, to farm workers' rights, to enhanced education, to voting and political rights, as well as emerging awareness of collective history. Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed what it perceived to be negative ethnic stereotypes of Mexicans in mass media and the American consciousness. Mexican American Chicano Movement

Supported Opposed • Non violence • Equal rights- I have a dream Speech • Civil Disobedience • He was in Montgomery at the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott • The same tactic - a non-violent response to violence - was also used by the Freedom Riders in their campaign to desegregate transport. • All violence • Racism • Political injustices Martin Luther King

Gave the US an advantage in locating Targets • The GPS project was developed in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems, [2] integrating ideas from several predecessors, including a number of classified engineering design studies from the 1960 s. GPS was created and realized by the U. S. Department of Defense (Do. D) and was originally run with 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1995. Bradford Parkinson, Roger L. Easton, and Ivan A. Getting are credited with inventing Technology & the US Navy

• American’s rioted and wanted peace. • John Lennon and Yoko Ono Viet man War Era

• • Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez, locally: [ˈsesaɾ esˈtɾaða ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, A Mexican American, Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970 s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50, 000 field workers in California and Florida. However, by the mid-1980 s membership in the UFW had dwindled to around 15, 000. Caesar Chavez