60's social issues
Across
- 6. Iots broke out in this Los Angeles neighborhood in 1965
- 8. This structure was erected in 1961 to divide East and West
- 9. Protest movement targeting U.S. involvement in Vietnam
- 11. The 1965 civil rights march destination in Alabama
- 12. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- 13. Nickname for antiwar activists in the 1960s
- 16. Strategy used in Selma, Washington, and other cities
- 21. Interracial bus rides to protest segregated travel
- 22. City where police clashed with protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention
- 25. First African American Supreme Court justice, appointed in 1967
- 26. Author of *Silent Spring*, sparking the environmental movement
- 28. A slogan symbolizing racial pride and self-determination in the 1960s
- 30. Resistance to this military requirement grew during Vietnam
- 31. Uprising in this Black neighborhood shocked America in 1965
- 32. Committee investigating alleged communism in the U.S.
- 33. Movement concerned with pollution and the environment
- 34. Antiwar candidate who challenged LBJ in the primaries
- 35. Activist student group that opposed the Vietnam War
- 39. Feminist movement pushing for gender equality
- 42. University where National Guard shot student protesters in 1970
- 43. 1963 demonstration where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech
- 44. Emerging political voice of this ethnic group in the 1960s
- 46. City where police used dogs and hoses on protestors in 1963
Down
- 1. Landmark court case that began legal battles over abortion
- 2. Radical Black rights group founded in Oakland in 1966
- 3. A political movement of young people pushing for civil rights and antiwar reforms
- 4. Lyndon Johnson’s domestic reform programs
- 5. U.S. Special Forces often deployed in Vietnam
- 7. Great Society program for early childhood education
- 10. Militant civil rights leader assassinated in 1965
- 14. A major Cold War conflict that escalated U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia
- 15. What young men burned in protest of the Vietnam War
- 17. What women demanded in workplaces during the 1960s
- 18. Home of the hippie movement in San Francisco
- 19. Hallucinogenic drug popularized by Timothy Leary
- 20. Site of the Free Speech Movement in 1964
- 22. The movement to end racial segregation and discrimination
- 23. 1969 music festival symbolizing counterculture
- 24. Group founded to promote women's rights in 1966
- 27. Organization that legally challenged segregation laws
- 29. Volunteer group founded by JFK to help developing nations
- 34. Supreme Court ruling that reinforced rights during police arrests
- 36. Public gathering focused on peace and nonviolence
- 37. A social movement advocating women's equality that gained momentum in the 60s
- 38. Anti-communist alliance in Southeast Asia
- 40. Failed 1961 CIA invasion of Cuba
- 41. A key student organization in the civil rights movement
- 45. Won the 1968 presidential election on a law-and-order platform
- 47. Civil rights leader assassinated in 1968