What were the major events of the new left?

Under the Alien Registration Act of 1940, also called the Smith Act,

Communist Party leaders are convicted of conspiring to advocate the

overthrow of the U.S. government by force; Communist-led unions are

expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations

In 1954, U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in

Brown v. Board of Education; in response, southern whites form Citizens

Councils to lead a campaign of "massive resistance" to desegregation.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts