History

By josvictor

  • 13th amendment

    • Abolish Slavery

  • 14th amendment

    • Grant citizenship to former slaves

  • Sharecropping

    • Landowner allows tenant to use the land in return for a share of crops produced on their portion land.

  • 15th amendment

    • Black male suffrage, right to vote

  • Jim Crow laws

    • Segregation of public schools, places, transport restrooms, restaurant and drinking fountain for whites & blacks

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of " separate but equal "

  • Lynching

    • Kill (Someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trail.

  • 19th amendment

    • Any sex should have the right to vote

  • Civil Disobedience

    -refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes & fines as a peaceful form of political protest

  • 20th Amendment

    • Terms of president & vice. President ends at noon January 20th

  • Hector P. Govera

    • Mexican- American and also a world war II veternan founder of the American G.I Forum

  • Brown V. Board of education

    • Law that established separate public schools for black & white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks

    • Activist in the civil rights movement.

  • Orville Faubus

    -American Politician who served as 36th governor of Arkansas

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    • Protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on public transit system.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    • Primary a voting rights bill was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the u.s congress.

  • Nonviolent protest

    • Achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests

  • Sit- Ins

    • One or more people occupying an area for a protest

  • Affirmation Action

    • Policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination , especially in relation to employment or education .

  • Cesar Chavez

    • American labor leader & civil rights activist who co-founded the National farm workers association ini 1962

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    • American baptist minister & activist who became the most visible spokesperson & leader in the civil rights movement.

  • Betty Friedan

    • American writer, activist and feminist, leading figure in women's movement in U.S

  • 24th Amendment

    • Prohibits congress & state from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or others types of tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    • Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    -Provides a 10% increase in compensation payment to all veterans with a service- connected disability

  • Thurgood Marshall

    -Courts 96th justice and its first African- American justice.

  • Lester Madox

    • American politician who served as the 75th governor of the U.S state of Georgia

  • George Wallace

    -American Politician & the 45th governor of Alabama.

  • 26th Amendment

    • Citizens that are 18 year olds can vote

  • Title IX (a)

    • No person shall, on the basis of sex, denied beridfit of or subjected to discrimination.

  • Desegregation

    • The ending of a policy of racial segregation