Week 13 Assignment 2

Double V Campaign- 1942- campaigned full citizen rights for African Americans fighting for the United States.

National Congress of American Indians- 1944- represented tribes resistiung the governments trys to terminate theur rights.

Brown v. Board of Education -1954- Supreme Court case declaring segregation laws unconstitutional.

Desegregation of Central High School - 1957- first school were school desegregation happened

Greensboro Sit-in - 1960- series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina

Bay of Pigs Invasion - 1961- invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces wanting to overthrow Castro

Freedom Rides - 1961- civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

USSR tests hydrogen bomb - 1961- the Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bombs at the Semipalatinsk test site

Cuban Missile Crisis -1962 - A US and Soviet Union confrontation dealing with nuclear weapons

March on Washington - 1963- march for civil and economical rights of African Americans

JFK Assassination - 1963- Marine Lee Harvey Oswald killed the USs 35th president

Watts Riot - 1965- Fight due to African-American motorist was arrested for suspicious drunk driving in a Watts a neighborhood in Los Angeles

Voting Rights Act - 1965- federal legislation which prohibited racial discrimination in voting

Delano to Sacramento March - 1966- march seeking labor rights for farmworkers

Black Panther Party established - 1966- meant to try and provide protection against police brutality in African-American neighborhoods

National Organization for Women - 1966- challenged sex discrimination in American society protested for equal rights for women

Edward Brook - 1966- American Republican politician the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate

Mexican American Youth Organization - 1967- civil rights organization

Occupation of Alcatraz - 1969- occupation of the island Alcatraz for nineteen months

Women’s Strike for Equality - 1970- focused on equal opportunity in the workplace over 20,000 women gathered

Trail of Broken Treaties - 1972- cross-country protest by American Indians wanted attention on the American Indian's issues