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Abolished 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) -
1972 it was defeated but, it was proposed by the National Women's political party, it was to provide for the legal equality of the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. -
President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin" in the military (integrated units)
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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 the 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. -
Mexican-American civil rights movement. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depicts Mexican-American culture. -
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics. -
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 American civil rights activists. -
He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
