| This U. S. Supreme Court case (1966) ruled
that police officers must inform an arrested
person of his or her constitutional rights
before they could question that suspect. |
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| A major women's organization whose purpose
is to end discrimination of all kinds on
the basis of gender. |
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| A revolutionary group of African Americans
who believed in violent methods for remedying
racial injustices. |
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| In this 1963 case, the Supreme Court declared
that states must provide an attorney to a
defendant in a criminal case if they are
too poor to pay for one. |
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| He said: That's one small step for man; one giant
leap for mankind in the summer of 1969. |
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| This seventy-day stand in South Dakota by
Native American rights activists attempted
to dramatize Indian suffering and call for
preferential hiring and government reimbursement
for lands taken from them in the past. |
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| He worked to win rights for migrant farmers.
He is most famous for a strike he organized
with the help of grape pickers in California
in 1965. |
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| Founded by Elijah Muhammed, they rejected
anything related to white culture and championed
the creation of a separate black nation. |
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| These urban riots in Los Angeles in 1965
were fueled by frustration and despair among
African Americans who felt that the civil
rights techniques of the early 1960s were
not generating enough changes for most blacks
in America. |
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| The U. S. Supreme Court declared that the
police must grant an arrested person a request
to have a lawyer present during interrogation. |
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| Social reformer and author of The Feminine Mystique, a book that had a great influence on the
development of the modern feminist movement. |
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| This consumer advocate's book, Unsafe At Any Speed, accused the auto industry of emphasizing
speed and style over safety and economy. |
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| Senior citizens who organized themselves
into a political interest group to push issues
that were important to them. |
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| An organization of African American Southern
leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., that conducted peaceful civil rights
demonstrations. |
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