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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.
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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.
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Taking advantage of the former slaves' desire to own their own farms, plantation owners used arrangements
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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.
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that no state shall deny one person for equal protection
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rimarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress
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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
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it was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in
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were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
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He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991
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He was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas
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didn't give up her seat to a white man and then got arrested fo not giving it up
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a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum
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He was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S
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he was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat
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she was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States
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an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
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He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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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
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Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests
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Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement.
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Desegregation was long a focus of the Civil Rights Movement,
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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
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was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
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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
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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
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main aim was to advance the cause ofcivil rights in America but in a non-violent manner
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A form of nonviolent protest, employed during the 1960s in the civil rights movement and later in the movement against the Vietnam War
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lsknown as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity in Canada and South Africa
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were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
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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
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the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
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is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University
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andmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
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The Black Panther Party or the BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization
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of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states
