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Abolishes slavery. -
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law -
Right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color (African American males right to vote) -
Founded by Booker T. Washington, “established a normal school for
colored teachers”. Provided students with academic and vocational training. -
Establishes “Separate but equal” -
Key founder: W.E.B. Du Bois. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help
fight for African American rights. -
Right to vote should not be denied on the account of sex (Women get the right to vote) -
Proposed by the National Women's political party, it was to provide
for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the
basis of sex. Defeated in 1972. -
President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race,color, religion or national origin" in the military (integrated units) -
Integrated public schools. Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city
buses protesting segregated seating. Key person: Rosa Parks -
Advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. Key member: MLK -
Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students
from entering high school. President Eisenhower uses National
Guard to protect students' entry into the school. -
President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the
Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain
court injunctions against interference with the right to vote -
Four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter
and refused to leave after being denied service. Protesting racial segregation. -
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics. -
Mexican-American civil rights movement.Artists began using the
walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to
depict Mexican-American culture. -
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated
southern U.S. Challenged and protested local laws that ignored
integration -
in 1962 co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later
called the United Farm Workers Union). Was a Latino American
civil rights activists. -
He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism