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14th Amendment
Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the Untied States. which included former slaves who had just been freed after the civil War. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Was to allow racial segregation; in public transportation, schools, restaurants and restrooms. Basically anywhere that was public for all. Because we are all equal and deserve the same rights as anyone else. -
CORE
CORE was the Congress of Racial Equality. It was one of the leading activist organization. It Initially a non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation. -
Hector P. Garcia
Hector organized the American GI forum in Corpus Christi for equal access for Mexican american veterans. He advanced the credo "Education is our Freedom and freedom should be everybody's business. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Was to bring segregation into schools. To allow student to go to school nearest to them. " -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist, who refused to give her seat to a white passenger. She started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Was awarded the highest NAACP award. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
Was African Americans refusing to ride city buses In Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. This boycott was Started because of a young lady named Rosa Parks whom resued to give up her seat. -
SCLC
SCLC was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It was a non-violent organization to achieve social , economic and political justice. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights movement leader. He is most famous for his speech in Washington,"I had a dream". He also started the non-violent protests. -
Orval Faubus
Orval was a democratic governor in Arkansas, who became a national symbol of racial segregation. He tried to block the enrollment of nine black students ordered to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. -
Little Rock NIne
Was nine black students who started in a white school. Brown v. Board of Education -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall Thurgood was a US supreme court justice and civil rights advocate. Marshall guided the litigation that took down the Jim Crow segregation. he successfully argued the Smith v. Allwright overthrowing the South's "white primary". -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan broke new ground with her book, "The feminine Mystique". Explaining the idea that women could find personal fulfillment outside their traditional roles. She helped advance the woman's rights movement, as one of the founders of the NOW. -
George Wallace
George Wallace was an Alabama governor that led a "Stand-in the schoolhouse door", to prevent black students from enrolling into the university. -
March on Washington
People gathered in Washington D.C., for political rally for jobs and freedom. -
University of Alabama Integration
When African American students attempted to desegregate the school. Two African Americans students were successfully enrolled. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox violated the freshly signed Civil rights Act. By refusing to serve three black students at his restaurant. He waved a gun at them while yelling at them. Other customers -
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely left school during the "freedom Summer", He joined the SNCC used his natural leadership skills to quickly be appointed feild organizer for Lowndes County. He managed to raise the number of registered black voters in 1965 -
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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez called the National boycott of the California table grape growers.He led many marches and boycotts and went through several hunger strikes.
