After reading Chapter 28, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

Greensboro and other sit-ins, 1960-1961

New Frontier

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Clean Air Act, 1963

Peace Corps

Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis

détente

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI

Great Society

Economic Opportunity Act (Job Corps, VISTA, Head Start) and war on poverty

Michael Harrington, The Other America

Barry Goldwater

Medicare and Medicaid

Immigration Act, 1965

Robert Weaver and the Department of Housing and Urban Development

National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities

Ralph Nader and the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Thurgood Marshall

Baker v. Carr

Miranda v. Arizona

Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" Speech

Civil Rights Act, 1964; Voting Rights Act, 1965

Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, 1964

Kerner Commission and its report

Malcolm X and the Black Muslims

Black Power

the Black Panther party

American Indian Movement (AIM)

César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers (UFW)

Chicanos and Chicanas

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Casey Hayden, Mary King, and Women's Liberation

the "pill"

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

doves versus hawks