Key Term

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws that were passed to restrict African American's freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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    Civil Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves
  • Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

    Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

    Landowner allows tenant to use the land in return for a share of crops produced on their portion of land.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The right to vote shall not be determined by race, color or previous slavery.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

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

    Lynching

    To kills someone for an alleged offense without a trial.
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    When African American Humer Plessy was arrested for boarding a whites only car. Plessy claimed this was against the 13th and 14th amendment.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    This Amendment gave women the right to vote by the 1920s.
  • 20th Amendment

    20th Amendment

    Sets the dates at which president & vice president ends at noon on 20th January & senators & representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January
  • Federal Hosing Authority (FHA)

    Federal Hosing Authority (FHA)

    It sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and private lenders for home building.
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    Mexican- American physician. surgeon World War 2 Veteran civil rights advocate, founder of the american G.I Forum
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience

    The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation

    The ending of racial segregation.
  • Brown V. Board of education

    Brown V. Board of education

    Case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus

    Governor of Arkansas.Mostly recognized for his stand against desegregation
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Alabama citizen who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do so She was
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    U.S first civil rights legislation that established the Civil Rights Commission to protect individual's rights to equal protection an..
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    Action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer fro discrimination, especially in the relation to employment or education.
  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins

    Form of protest by people coming into a place and occupying space. Until they have the right to get served.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Civil rights activist and co-founder of National Farm Workers Association of 1962.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    American and feminist. Author of the Feminine Mystique and leading figure in women's movement.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. and Had a speech in the March of Washington
  • Nonviolent Protest

    Nonviolent Protest

    The act of expressing disapproval through a statement or action without the use of violence.
  • Upward Bound

    Upward Bound

    Program for High School students. Helped them to receive a Bachelors Degree no matter their income
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    American Abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. A poll tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Veteran Rights Act of 1965

    Veteran Rights Act of 1965

    Provides a 10 percent increase in compensation payment to all veterans with a service- connected disability.
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    Program for low income families that benefitted children. Meets child's emotional, social, health and nutritional needs.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    1st African-American to serve in the Supreme court 1967-1991.
  • Lester Madox

    Lester Madox

    Governor of the Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    Governor of Alabama in the late 60's. Most known for his belief segregation should be forever.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    18th years old can vote; citizens
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected.

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