Chapter 28 - The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1966

Richard Nixon

________ was a leading Republican voice in favor of stronger civil rights law, while Senator John F. Kennedy, who was the Democratic nominee of the Civil Rights Congress, had played almost no role in the 1950's.

political equality

The ________ created by the civil rights movement encouraged efforts to modernize and reform the immigration policies of the country.

Jones Act

The ________ of 1917 made the island unincorporated in the U.S. and granted all Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship.

1962

At the end of ________, in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King decided with his SCLC allies to begin a new campaign against segregation.

southern manifestation

The ________ was signed in 1956 by 101 Congressmen from the former Confederated States and their countries were urged to refuse to disagree.

NAACP

The ________ had been chipping on the legal basis of segregation since the late 1930's.

Civil rights lawyers

________ have launched a series of lawsuits in sectional institutions seeking full equality rather than a frontal assault on Plessy separate but equal rule.

1898

In ________, during the final phases of the Spanish- American war, the United States seized Puerto Rico.

Martin Luther King Jr

____________ was born at Atlanta in 1929 and was raised as the son of a(n) eminent baptist minister by a middle class.

March in Washington

The ________ was an extraordinary demonstration of interracial unity as a mark in the fight for civil rights.

Lyndon Johnson

In 1964, ________ won a landslide in the reelection, which accounted for 61 % of the public voting.