Domestic Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 19 Apr 2019
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Created byAndrew Sanchez
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EISENHOWER ELECTION--34th president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson.JFK ELECTION-- was the 35th president, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.JFK ASSASSINATED-- was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964--civil rights and labor law that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965--a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.JOHNSON'S WAR ON POVERTY--This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.SCLC--The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. which is closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr.MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT--was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.SNCC--(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.FREEDOM RIDERS--were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme.MLK "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH--during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.UFW--The United Farm Workers of America, is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States.CESAR CHAVEZ--Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962..DELANO TABLE GRAPE STRIKE--The Delano grape strike was a labor strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California and lasted more than five years.
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