Exam 28: Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction

In the 1960s, the members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Where did Malcolm X attract an especially large following?

In 1965, President Johnson became the first president to send Congress a special message on

Match the term with the definition. -Movement of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy. Advocates encouraged African Americans to assert community control and some within the movement also rejected the ethos of nonviolence.

How did most whites perceive civil rights activism by 1966?

Which of the following statements characterizes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?

In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, held a large-scale protest in support of

What was the result of the election of 1964?

Which of the following describes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965?

"For years Columbia Trustees had evicted tenants from their homes, taken land through city deals, and fired workers for trying to form a union. For years they had trained officers for Vietnam who, as ROTC literature indicates, killed Vietnamese peasants in their own country. In secret work for the IDA [Institute for Defense Analysis] and the CIA, in chemical-biological war research for the Department of War, the Trustees implicated their own University in genocide. They had consistently . . . lied to their own constituents and published CIA books under the guise of independent scholarship. . . . Columbia, standing at the top of a hill, looked down on Harlem. . . . People who survived in Harlem had been evicted by the Trustees from Morningside or still paid rent to Columbia. . . . We walked to our classrooms across land that had been privatized; we studied in buildings that had once been homes in a city that is underhoused; and we listened to the apologies for Cold War and capital in our classes. Columbia professors often claim that the University is a neutral institution. . . . A University could not, even if it wanted, choose to be really value-free. It can choose good values; it can choose bad values; or it can remain ignorant of the values on which it acts. . . . A social institution should at least articulate its own perspective, so that its own values may be consciously applied or modified. It is a typical fallacy of American teaching, that to remain silent on crucial issues is to be objective with your own constituents. Actually a 'neutral' institution is far more manipulative than a University committed to avowed goals and tasks." What stance did the SDS take with regard to the notion that Columbia University is a "neutral institution"?

What made the Community Action Program (CAP) the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?

What did the Medicare program provide?

What was the end result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty?

Why were women of color critical of white women's feminist organizations?

How did the approach of some black activists in the civil rights movement change by 1966?

How did the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren expand the Constitution's promise of equality and individual rights?

To what extent did President Kennedy live up to his promise to confront the nation's "unsolved problems of peace and war . . . ignorance and prejudice . . . poverty and surplus"?

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

According to Map 28.2: The Rise of the African American Vote, 1940-1976, what southern state was the first in which more than 80 percent of eligible African Americans registered to vote?

Drawing on the example of the Beats, the counterculture of the 1960s