| This civil rights organization sponsored
the "freedom ride" to Birmingham,
Alabama to protest segregation on buses and
trains. |
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| The first major presidential contender in
1968 to protest U. S. involvement in Vietnam. |
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| A body of government officials who investigated
the causes of urban riots in the 1960s and
concluded that American society was rapidly
dividing into two separate nations along
racial lines. |
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| The 1968 National Democratic convention was
marred by this Chicago mayor, who used brutal
police repression to break up demonstrations
of protest outside the meeting hall. |
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| Those who opposed continuing U. S. involvement
in Vietnam. |
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| This outdoor gathering of over 400,000 young
people in upstate New York in 1969 became
a major "happening" of the counterculture. |
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| Initially an advocate of violence, this Black
Muslim orator later changed to black separatism
after traveling to Mecca. He drifted away
from the Black Muslims and began advocating
some compromise with white society, but was
soon assassinated in 1965. |
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| This movement by Native Americans was formed
to push for control of their own affairs.
They fought for "Red Power" and
established armed patrols to protect Indians
from police harassment. |
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| A form of protest in the early 1960s in which
African American and white Americans joined
together to desegregate buses and bus depots
used in interstate commerce. |
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| Young people of the 1960s who protested the
Vietnam war and adopted a style of dress
and behavior that defied conventional tastes. |
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| This biologist's book, Silent Spring, alerted the nation about the dangers to
the environment from the use of pesticides
in agriculture. |
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| One of the leaders of S. N. C. C., he advocated
excluding whites from this organization. |
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| Those who supported the continuation of U.
S. involvement in Vietnam. |
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