1965-1970 America Unpinned (Coming Apart) Part 1-: Stop at 19:00 Minutes

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1965-1970 America Unpinned (coming apart) part 1- Name_______________________ 30 POINTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jET2qR8Y-Ng&t=190s

1954- Brown v Board of Education- Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools and places is unconstitutional

1964- World’s Fair in NYC- theme of “Peace Through Understanding”

LBJ is elected President in Nov 1964, after the assassination of JFK in Nov of 1963.

1-What were the rides of whites to the South called?

2- What were they trying to do for Blacks?

3-What was the summer called?

4-Why was it dangerous?

5-Fall of 64, any speech on the Berkley campus had to be _________________ by the college. (1 st Amendment??)

6-How did college students at Berkley react to this? Why?

7-In Vietnam, what did soldiers in 1965 think the war was going to be like? (La Drang Valley)

7a- What was LBJs plan against poverty called?

8-What percentage of blacks in Selma were NOT registered to vote in 1964?

9-Why not?

10-What was the march from Selma to Montgomery supposed to achieve in 1965?

11-How were marchers treated?

12-What beating brought about public sympathy for the marchers?

13-What was LBJ’s famous quote that rallied the public to the side of the marchers?

14. How did protestors adopt this saying?

Stop at 19:00 minutes

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