Civil Rights Key Points

By ABeals
  • !3th amendment

    !3th amendment

    Eight months after the civil war slavery was officially against the law
  • Black code

    Black code

    Having African americans working on low wages and poor work enviroment
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    Granted citizen ship to everyone in the United States who were born or naturalized
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    Gave the right to African Americans men the right to vote
  • Lynching

    Lynching

    A group of people who take it into their own hands to punish someone but mostly african americans and they hang them
  • Sharecropping/tenat farming

    Sharecropping/tenat farming

    The land owner allows a tenate to use the land inreturn for a share of the crops
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    "Seperate but Equal" Had allowed them to go places but looked horrible then what the whites had
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    Gave the right to women to vote
  • Federal Housing Authority

    Federal Housing Authority

    This organization is used to improve housing standards conditions, provide an nice home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    A lawyer who arugued and won the Brown V. Board of eduaction case
  • Rose Parks

    Rose Parks

    The police arrested her because she refused to give her seat to a white man.
  • Montgomery Bus boycott

    Montgomery Bus boycott

    It started when rosa parks refused to give up her seat and when Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat
  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus

    He ordered the national guard to stop African Americans from entering the school but the president sent the us army to escort them throught the day for a year.
  • Sit Ins

    Sit Ins

    4 Students sat a whites only counter and refused to move what was only 4 people turned into 300 people
  • George Wallce

    George Wallce

    He was against desegregation he didn't want it to happen
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment

    /prohibiting to any poll taxes in any state
  • Civil rights Act of 1964

    Civil rights Act of 1964

    Stopped discrimnation with color, race, religion, and sex
  • upward bound

    upward bound

    doubles the chances for low income first generation students graduating so they can escape proverty and join the middle class.
  • Veteran rights Act of 1965

    Veteran rights Act of 1965

    Voting rights
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    Provides early childhood education, health, nurtution, and parent involvment services to low income children and families.
  • Lester Madox

    Lester Madox

    Ran for governer when enough people knew about him when he wouldnt serve african americans in his resturaunt
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    Giving equal rights to everyone and letting them go to the same places as everyone else
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Leader of the civil rights movement
    Gave his I have a Dream Speech during the March on Washington
  • Jim crow laws

    Jim crow laws

    Segregation not being able to go to the same place as the whites such as public schools, drinking fountains, theaters, resteraunts, and bathrooms
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    leader of the womans movement in new york city attracted over 50,000 women and men
  • affirmative action

    affirmative action

    Treated equal without regard tot heir race, color, creed, or natural orgin.
  • 26th

    26th

    18 or older could now be able to vote
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    Federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
  • Civil disobedience

    Civil disobedience

    The refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of the goverment
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Best known as the Latino American Civil rights activist he worked with getting hispanics and getting them a job but as well as getting them their rights
  • nonviolent protest

    nonviolent protest

    Protesting without using violence
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    He was a civil rights Advocate worked agaisnt poll taxes and segregation
  • Civil rights act of 1957

    Civil rights act of 1957

    A voting rights bill was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts.
  • Brown V. board of education

    Brown V. board of education

    The U.S. Supreme court ruled that racially segregated schools are unequal