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Forbaded slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
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Local laws that cotrolled every aspects of black people life in many cities in the South. Black people couldn't for example make eye contact with white people or they had to step out of white person's way.
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Declared that all persons born in the States were citizens who were entitled to equal rights, regardless of their race, and rights were protected by due process. ( this didn't include Native Americans)
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This granted African American men the right to vote, but didin't stop tests, black codes to limit voting.
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Tenant farming was almost like renting, but they rent farm land to be able to work it. Sharecropping was tenant farming, but they had to share a portion of harvest with the land owner.
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It was killing black people deemed guilty for a crime without trial, often without proven to guilty. Mainly in the South and it was a way to control black population. Crimes could have been " looking cross at someone" , " robbery and assault" and so on. Mainly 1870-1940, but the last recorded lynching happened in 1980.
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The case which went to U.S Supreme Court. The desicion was that segregation was okay, as long as it was "separate but equal"
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He was U.S Supreme Court's 96th Asssociate Justice and first African American Justice. He served 1967-1991.
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He was the governor of Arkansas and best known for his stand in the desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1957.
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Rosa Parks refused the give her seat to a white man in Montgomery Bus boycott in 1955. She worked for NAACP and followed Claudette Colvin's example, but was better figure for boycott than young and pregnant Claudette.
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He was a Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War 2 veteran, civil rights activist and also the founder of the Ameriacn G.I. Forum.
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He was a former restaurant owner and he refused to serve black people. After that he became the governor of Georgia. He was a segregationist, although also oversaw improvements to black employment rights.
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He was a governor of Alabama, pro-segregationist, whose words: " I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." are famous. Also ran for U.S President.
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All American got the right to vote, after many protests and petitions since 1848.
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She was writer, activist and feminist, a leader in the women's movement. Organized nationwide Women's Strike for Equality on August 23, 1970.
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He was a Mexican American Latino Civil Rights activist, strongly promoted by the American Labor Movement.
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He was the leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. He used nonviolent action, based on Christian beliefs; he was a Baptist minister, humanitarian and activist. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, for nonviolent actions in combating racial inequality.
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Sets the dates when federal government elected offices end, and defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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It is a US Government agency, created as a part of the National Housing Act of 1934. Sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building.
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Protests and acts for Civil Rights that didn't include violence, for example sit-ins, marches and boycotts. Different groups such as SCLC, NAACP, SNCC and CORE pursued nonviolent protests.
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Thge process of ending segregation, started before U.S. Supreme Courts decision about Brown v. Board of Education case and lasted long after that.
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Case that went to Supreme Court, which stated that separating black and white students was unconstitutional.
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A protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system in Alabama. Rosa Banks refused to give her seat to a white man in bus and got arrested. This boycott lasted from December 1955 to December 1956.
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Was the first civil rights legislation after Reconstruction, protected voting rights and established Federal Civil Rights Commission.
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It was active refusal to obey certain laws, could have been violent or nonviolent.
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Laws that separate African Americans from Anglo population. It was a way for social and political cotrol.
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Sit-ins were a form of nonviolent, direct action, protests to promote change in Civil Right Movement by for example SCLC and NAACP. Most well-known sit-ins happened in Greensboro North Carolina where black university students refused to leave a "whites only" restaurant.
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Prevented Congress and the States from requiring poll taxes before voting.
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Abolished racial, religious and sex discrimination by employers, and now anyone couldn't be denied hire or fired for those reasons. Also ended unfair voting requirements.
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Federal legislation that prohibited racial discrimination in voting. Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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A program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, provides childhood education, health, nutrition and parent involvement services to low-income children. Created 1965 by Jule Sugarman.
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Federally funded educational program within the United states, monitored by the United States Department of Education. Was launched in 1965 after the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The program's goal is to give certain categories ( ow-income etc.) in high school better opportunities to get into university.
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Also known as positive discrimination, the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffers from discrimination. Was a way to fight against racial discrimination.
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Prohibited the Federal government and the States from denying the ability to vote based on age, lowering the voting age to 18.
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Part of Education Amendments of 1972, prohibited sex discrimination in educational programs and activities.
