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Bonus Army Group

History; American history

Group of unemployed World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D. C. , in June 1932 to ask for immediate payment of their war pensions.

Black Tuesday

History; American history

October 29,1929, the day of the stock market crash that initiated the Great Depression.

Black Codes

History; American history

Laws passed by Southern state legislatures during Reconstruction, while Congress was out of session. These laws limited the rights of former slaves and led Congress to ratify the Fourteenth ...

A rallying cry for more militant blacks advocated by younger leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, beginning in the mid 1960s. It called for African Americans to form their own economic, ...

Big Stick Diplomacy

History; American history

The proclaimed foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt, it was based on the proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," and advocated the threat of force to achieve the United States' goals, ...

Betty Friedan

History; American history

Author of The Feminine Mystique, the. 1963 book that articulated the discontent among white middle class housewives in the "Baby Boom" era. She founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in ...

Beat Generation

History; American history

A cultural style and artistic movement of the 1950s that rejected traditional American family life and material values and celebrated African American culture. They tapped an underground ...