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14th Amendment
Grants citizenship -
15th Amendment
grants voting rights -
Plessy v Ferguson
helped legalize whites and blacks being equal -
jim crow laws
state and local laws in the United States -
NAACP
offers assistance to african americans with regards to matters involving civil rights -
19th Amendment
grants right to vote to women -
LULAC
Offers assistance to Hispanic Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights -
Elanor Roosevelt
Civil rights leader thats advocated for the basic rights of all citizens -
Federal housing authority
It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying. -
Social Security
funded through federall payroll taxes -
Hector p garcia
Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
congress on racial equality
is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
Mendez vs Westminster
legalized hispanic students to go to a white school -
Elanore Rooseevelt
civil rights leader that advocated for the basic rights of all citizens -
Sweatt v Painter
children should share equal facilities, services, and education instruction did allow spereate classes -
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD
Landmark case in Texas that dealt with racial segregaton -
Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr
civil rights leader most associated with the march in washington as well as winning the nobel peace prize -
Hernandez v Texas
Mexican Americans were due equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
Dolores Huerta
civil rights leader that advocated for the basic rights of all citizens -
Brown vs board of education
successfully overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson decision by applying that " seperate but inherently equal" -
Orval Faubus
was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District -
Rosa Parks
African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
Montgomery bus boycott
a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Southern christian leadership confrence
African-American civil rights organization. -
Civil rights act of 1957
primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress -
Cesar Chavez
Championed the economic rights of migrant workers -
Amendment
minor change in a document -
Student non violent coordinating committee
emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960 -
Affirmative Action
policy enacted to right the wrongs of the discrimination of the past by increasing representaion in employment and education for mini=orities and women -
Betty Friedan
Wrote the book the feminine mystique in an effort to allow women to choose the lifestyles they wanted -
March on washington
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
Lyndon B Johnson
was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States. -
great society
medicare, head start, upward bound -
24th Amendment
passed to prevent voting descrimination against the poor by outlawing poll taxes -
civil rights movement
were social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them. -
civil rights act of 1964
deffered from earlier attempts to address minority rights by focousing on ending discrmination in the work plavce -
Medicare
guarentees access to health insurace for americans ages 65 and older -
Upward bound
is a federally funded educational program within the United States. -
Voting rights act of 1965
outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
United farm workers organizing commitee
is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, -
Tinker vs Des Moines
ruling stated that freedom of speech and free expression were rights protected for students in U.S. public schools -
non violent protest
is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence. -
National organization for women
has a membership of 550,000 contributing members set up for the advancement of women. -
black panthers
was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982 -
George Wallace
American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. -
25th amendment
death of president -
Thurgood marshall
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. -
Millitant protest
protesting with violence and aggression -
American Indian Movement
is a Native American activist organization in the United States -
la raza unida
was an American political party centered on Chicano nationalism -
26th Amendment
passed due to the fact that citizens were being drafted at the age of 18 but were not allowed to vote -
Title XI
makes it legal to deny participation in activities funded with federal funds on the basis of gender -
Barara Jordan
American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction -
Sonia Sotomayer
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice. -
Edgewood vs. Kirby
Landmark case in texas redistributed property taxes to poorer districts led to robin hood legislation -
Head start
Provide comprehensive education and health for services of low income families
