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13th Amendment(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This was the amendment that abolished slavery. The constitution actually never mentioned slaves or slavery in the amendment but, still stopped the practice of it. This amendment also mention other ¨free People´s¨ such as native americans. -
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14th Amendment(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This ties directly to the 13th amendment giving all free slaves equal right´s. this includes citzenships espcially because a majority of these slaves came over seas. Thats were the term all persons born or natrualized comes from. -
15th Amendment(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This Amendment completes the triology of freedoms given to African Americans this would be the right to vote. Though no women could not vote until the 1920´s. To be more specific this constitutional law prevented descrimnation with voting. -
Tuskegee Institute(Civil Rights People/Groups)
This Pradominilty African American school was found by Booker T. Washington in Alabama. It provided young men and women necessary skills like economic self relience. It also offered a trade school and teacher developement program. -
Plessy v.s Ferguson(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This was legal case that occured in the U.S supreme Court. This brought up the contraversal topic of seperate but equal. This also challenged the notion of the 14th amendment. What had occured was an act of racial segragation which technically did not break any amendments but they still thought it was unjust which it was. -
NAACP(Civil Rights people/Groups)
To ensure that the right given in the past 3 amendments were actually being followed. An orginization was create one to proctect these right´s and two to enforce them. W.E.B Du Bois the founder of the orginization who had concerns of the right´s of African Americans espically after the race riots in illionois. -
19th Amendment(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This was a huge step and what really defined the 20´s giving women the right to vote. It really changed everything women started acting more independent and rebellies. It was the era of the flapper girl. -
Equal Rights Amendment proposal and defeated(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
After women got the right to vote and had formed the women political party they wanted more rights that only men had. They wanted legal support for the equallity. Basically deleting rolls the were once occupied by just one sex(male). -
Executive order 9981(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
as ww2 became more of and issue in the U.S and the potential of having to be involved in the war. President Truman abolished all segragation in the army including, race, sex, religion ect. -
Brown v.s the Board of education(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
This overturned plessy v.s furguson because that saw racial segragtion as constitutional. This one of course involved the public school system and the segragation of races was not constitutional. now who was involved well it was the entire African American population v.s the entire public school system. -
Montgomery Bus boycotts(civil Rights People/Groups)(peaceful protest)
after the arrest of rosa parks for not giving up her seat on a bus. MLK started a protest were for 300 plus days all african americans did not use public transportation. so for around 1 year they made no money until they finally got rid of the racial segragation on bus. Huge victory of the civil rights movement and the start of the MLK era. -
SClS(Civil Rights people/Groups)
This is an all african american christan orginization. first found in january 1957 by president eisnehower and led by MLK. this was associated with the same causes that were discussed in the civil rights movement. -
Little rock 9(Civil Rights people/Groups)(peaceful protest)
the govener of little rock arkansa still had his public school segragated. one year a group of 9 african americam students attempted to enter the school he stopped them. esienhower sent the national guard to protect and let them in. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957(Constitutional Issues and Laws)
esienhower created a specific branch of the the focused on civil rights movement. in the judicial branch to empower and stop the inteference of the right to vote. -
Greensboro, NC, Sit-ins(peaceful protest)
still in mostly the south a lot of areas like restauraunts were still segragate. One in particular in Greensboro had 4 african american students sit at a whites only lunch counter and refused to get up. as a form of protest. -
SNCC(Civil Rights people/Groups)
to make sure to enforce their civil rights moevement in a non-violent way they created the SNCC.a politcal group for studenst to orginize protest tactics. -
chicano Movement(Civil Rights people/Groups)(peaceful protest)
mexican american movement were they would use public buildings and have artist exsrpess mexican culture. -
Freedom Riders(Civil Rights people/Groups)(peaceful protest)
It was a civil rights movements, were groups of activist rode into segregated parts of southern u.s. they protested and ignored the local laws of those areas. -
Cseasar Chavez(Civil Rights people/Groups)
Was a latino American civil rights activist who co-founded the farmers worker union. -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”(Civil Rights people/Groups)
A famous open hand letter were Dr. King wrote about "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." This was while he was incarserated.