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15th Amedment
prohibited state from denying citizens right to vote base on race, color, or previous services. -
Black Codes
(1) Blacks unable to borrow money to rent or buy land. (2) freedman forced to sign work contracts. (3) Blacks unable to testify in white courts. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
pronounced all African Americans to be US citizens (along with legal shield). -
Ku Klux Klan
organized to intimidate blacks and white reformers. Founded in 1867 by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest. -
Sharecropping
Blacks forced into sharecropping due to lack of money after freed, led to debt with previous plantaion owners (unable to get out of debt or leave). -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
law guaranteed equal accomidations in public places and prohibited courts from excluding African Americans from juries. -
Urban Migration
Left south because of (1) Deteriorating race relations (2) Decunstruction of cotton by cotton boll wievel (3) job opportunities opened in northern factories. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
fire in New York City that killed 150 female factory workers. It was later found that the workers had been locked into the factory; as a result, many factory reforms were enacted -
Child Labor Act
prohibited shipment of thing made by children -
Ninteenth Amendment
guaranteed women’s right to vote. -
Committee of Civil Rights
Strengthn and protect civil rights in the U.S.
Pres.Truman -
Baseball
Jackie Robinson
Integration in baseball
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Beatniks
Media stereotype of the Beat Gen
Beat Gen- a group of writers who promoted rejection of typical standards and style, drug and sexual experimentation, and rejection of materialism. -
Earl Warren Court
Made a series of decisions that had a profound effect on the criminal justice system, the political system of the states, and the definition of individual rights. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Separate schools for black students unconstitutional -
Montgomery, AL
Rosa Parks bus boycott
Segregation on public buses unconstitutional -
Truman
Foreign policy (startof theCold War)
Pres. Truman
Intrgrated the military -
Greensboro, NC
Nonviolent sit- ins
End of segregation at Woolworth’s -
Eisenhower
Used troops to protect children integrating into public school -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. -
Watts and Detroit Riots
In Watts in 1965 and in Detroit and newark in 1967, rioters struck out at symbols of white control of their communities, such as white-owned businesses -
ASSASSINATION
the former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. -
Miranda v. Arizona
stating that all individuals retain the right to remain silent to avoid getting themselves in trouble at the time of arrest. -
Woodstock
A three day music festival that involved drugs, sex, awesome music, and lots of hippies. Represented the social culture in the 1960’s
