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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice -
Orval Faubus
He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis, in which he defied a unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
Hector P. Garcia
Hector Garcia was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum -
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. -
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Dolares Huerta
Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. -
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. -
Civil Rights Movement
This was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. -
Non-Violent Protest
A non-violent protest consist of protests or petitions that do not harm anyone. They just simply march, sit, stand, or something and completely rebel against law in order to get attention. March on Washington: Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony during the march.[4] Montgomery Bus Boycott: when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a whit -
Miliant Protests
This form of protesting is violent and vigorous. -
Civil Rights Assocations
NAACP: Nation Association of the Advancement of Colored People, offer assistance to African Americans with regards to mattters involving civil rights
NOW: National Organziation for Women
SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC: Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
UFWOC: United Farm Workers Organzing Committee
La Raza Unidad: Mexican Americans United
LULAC: League of United Latin American Citizens, offered assistance to Latinos.
CORE: Congress on Racial Equality
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is an 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. -
Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
The Feminine Mystique is a nonfiction book by Betty Friedan first published in 1963. It is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
Federal Housing Authority
This is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. -
Title IX
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Jim Crow Laws
State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1] and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.[ -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964
1957: primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War. 1964: was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women -
Great Society
The Great Society was founded by LBJ one of our Presidents and it included a Head Start, Medicare, Affirmative ACtion, Social Security and Upward Bound. This altogether was supposed to make our economicany better and to get rid of the "poor" status, but it was more if an idea then a work down because of the Vitnam War that was distracting to him. -
American Indian Movement
This was is a Native American activist organization in the United States, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Educationended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. -
Delgado vs Bastrop
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Edgewood ISD vs Kirby
The Texas Constitution requires an adequate public school system and they need equitable funding to do it. -
Hernandez vs Texaa
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
This is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".[ -
Sweatt vs Painter
This was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Tinker vs De Moines
This was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' First Amendment rights. -
Mendez vs Westminster
This was a 1946 federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an en banc decision, held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate school was unconstitutional. -
Amendments
14th: Granted citzenshop to all people born in the U.S.
15th: Grants voting right to African Americans
19th: Gives right to vote for women
24th: passed to prevent voting discrimination again the poor by outlawing poll taxes
25th: eals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as re
26th: passed due to thef act that citizens were being drafted into the military at the age of 18 but were not alllowed to vote -
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States,
