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gives right to vote no matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
African-American leader Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to train African-Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of his race. -
Plessy sat in the front of a train as an eighth african american and got in trouble. Court ruled “separate but equal”. However the emphasis was on separate. -
Gave women right to vote -
This would guarantee legal gender equality for men and women -
Desegregation of armed forces -
ruled that segregation of schools was violating the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional -
civil rights protest during which african americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating. First large scale US demonstration against segregation -
Nine African American students arrived at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (a former white school). They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. -
act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter -
a social and political movement inspired by prior acts of resistance among people of Mexican descent. During the Chicano Mural Movement, artists depicted Mexican-American culture art by painting on the walls of city buildings, schools, churches and housing projects. -
best known for his efforts to gain better working conditions for the thousands of workers who labored on farms for low wages and under severe conditions. Chavez and his United Farm Workers union battled California grape growers by holding nonviolent protests. -
an open letter written by mlk jr. basically saying that it is his moral responsibility to break unjust laws and take action when needed to fight for justice and equality. -
about a quarter-million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. MLK made his famous speech saying that he dreams of equality and freedom for all one day. -
three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States -
sought to improve conditions for recently urbanized Native Americans. It grew into an international movement whose goals included the full restoration of tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. -
O’Connor was nominated by Reagan, thus fulfilling his promise to appoint the first woman to the highest court in the US -
Sotomayor is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Court.