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13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
15ht Amendment
he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
ShareCropping/tenant farming
Taking advantage of the former slaves' desire to own their own farms, plantation owners used arrangements -
Black codes
These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
14th amendment
that no state shall deny one person for equal protection -
Civil rights act of 1957
rimarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress -
Lynching
s the practice of murder by extrajudicial action. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 1800s -
plessy v. ferguson
it was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in -
Jim crow laws
were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States -
Thurgood Marshall
He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991 -
Orval Faubus
He was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas -
Rosa parks
didn't give up her seat to a white man and then got arrested fo not giving it up -
Hector p. Garcia
a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum -
Lester Maddox
He was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S -
George wallace
he was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat -
Betty Friedan
she was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States -
Cesar Chavez
an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association -
Martin luther king Jr
He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Disobedience
is was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British -
Non-violent protest
Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests -
Stokely carmichael
Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. -
Desegregation
Desegregation was long a focus of the Civil Rights Movement, -
Brown v. board of education
The United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Little rock nine
was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
Montgomery bus boycott
the Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
Emmett till
ill was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store -
SCLC
main aim was to advance the cause ofcivil rights in America but in a non-violent manner -
Sit-in
A form of nonviolent protest, employed during the 1960s in the civil rights movement and later in the movement against the Vietnam War -
Affirmative action
lsknown as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity in Canada and South Africa -
freedom Riders
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
Ole Miss Integration
riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith -
March on washington
the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, -
CORE
is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
U of Alabama Intergration
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University -
Civil rights act of 1964
andmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Watts Riots
sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles -
Black panthers
The Black Panther Party or the BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Title Ix
of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states
