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Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power -
Black Codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
13th Amendment
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
14th Amendment
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues. -
15th Amendment
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Supreme Court upholding the consitiutionality of state laws requiring racial segartion in public. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex. -
20th Amendment
Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President and Senators and Representatives end and begin. -
Hector P. Garcia
Dr. Hector Garcia Perez was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. This law was used to separate the African Americans and the whites from everything. -
Brown v Board Eduction
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement -
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
It was the 1st civil rights legislation since reconstruction, it also protected voting rights. The Act established federal civil rights commission-investigates discrimination, it also prevented interference in Voting. -
Orval Faubus
American politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967 -
Sit-Ins
Oklahoma City sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation. -
Affirmative Action
Action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. -
George Wallace
American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. -
Nonviolent Protest
Nonviolent resistance (NVR or nonviolent action) is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, without using violence. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Act abolished racial, religious,& sex discrimination by employers. It could not be denied hired or fired for any of the above reasons. The act was introduced by JFK and ended unfair voting requirements. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits the revolution of voting rights due to the non-payment of a poll tax or any other tax. -
Head Start(1965)
The Head Start Program is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association -
Lester Maddox
American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 -
Thurgood Marshall
An associate justice of the united States supreme court was the courts 46th justice and its first Afrcain Amercian. -
Martin Luther King, Jr
American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement -
26th Amendment
Prohibits the denial of the right of US citizens, eighteen years of age or older, to vote on account of age. -
Title IX
Title IX is the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of genders in schools that receive federal funding, including in their athletics programs. -
Lynching
White people would hang black people for breaking laws such as looking at them, crossing the way the white person is walking, or even go into a white only restaurant. -
Federal Housing Authority(FHA)
The federal housing is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. -
Desegregation
Splitting two groups that have to do with two different races. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist.
