APUSH

• America becomes more conservative
• Turning Inward


  • Focus on improving themselves and their community
  • Self help becomes popular
  • Yoga
  • Exercise
  • Religion- both christian and non-christian
  • Self Awareness
• The right merges
• Oppose the breakdown of cultural norms

  Turn to faith
• Success of liberals galvanize
• Roe v wade
• Fourteenth Amendment: Guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws"
• Plessy v. Ferguson


  • 1896 Louisiana law segregating railroad passengers
  • Supreme Court declared constitutional all facilities that were "separate but equal"
  • Facilities were almost always inferior
• Supreme court tells african americans: no real evidence that congress who wrote the amendment of plessy v ferguson applies to race
• Life under Jim Crow


  • Controlled every aspect of southern life
  • Controls tech and everything
  • Public facilities
• World War II ideaology
• Executive order 8802


  Banned discrimination on the basis of race, religion, more
• Separate but Unequal? Brown vs. Board of Education


  • Supreme court unanimously decided that separate but equal schools violated the 14th amendment
  • Education plays vital role in training for citizenship and employment
  • Separation on the basis of race generates a "feeling of inferiority"
  • Separate facilities are inherently unequal
  • Desegregation "with all deliberate speed"
• Supporters of Brown vs. Board of Education


  • North praised the decision
  • Whites who want to obey law
  • Religious leaders on moral grounds
  • African americans
• Opponents of Brown vs. Board of Education


  • Groups like the KKK defended segregation as part of the southern way of life
  • Southern state legislatures argued that the federal government had no right to interfere with the states
• Governor Orval Faubus used the national guard to defend against these kids and keep them out of central high school
• Eisenhower used the army to restore order and the students attended with federal protection
• Febus closed all high schools except jim crow schools because they had to provide education
• White kids went back to privates so there was no integration
• After 10 years, only 2% of students in the South attended desegregated schools
• Montgomery bus boycott


  1. Rosa Parks arrested

  2. Supreme Court ruled segregation of public transit systems was unconstitutional

  3. Buses became bankrupt
• Martin Luther King


  • Recognized during the Bus Boycott
  • Liberal Universalism- White man, black man– man as man
  • Nonviolence- SCLC
• Montgomery civil rights association dissolves once boycotts end
• March on Washington
• I have a dream
• Civil rights act 1964
• Voting rights 1965
• The Emmitt Till case


  • Little boy bought candy at a store
  • Beaten to death
  • Open casket funeral
  • Case was overseen by an all white jury
• Lunch Counter Sit-ins


  1. Sat in segregated lunch counters that would refuse to serve african americans

  2. Much violence in delis
• Freedom Riders


  1. Would get on interstate buses and ride to segregated areas

  2. Would puncture the tires

  3. Set buses on fire
• Responses to the voter registration drive—Freedom Summer
• Selma Alabama March
• Election of 1960 was close
• Kennedy


  Young, good looking, educated, perfect president
• Kennedy picks johnson as his running mate
• Kennedy is pretty inexperienced but still secures the win
• Kennedy looks more presidential than Nixon
• JFK more concerned with foreign policy
• Peace Corps
• Tries to invest in transportation