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Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color,
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the Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965
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the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal
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efers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin
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an organization founded in 1966 and which has a membership of 500,000 contributing members set up for the advancement of women.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States
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an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
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Hector Perez Garcia (January 17, 1914-July 26, 1996) was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.[
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George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama,.
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prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American writer, activist, and feminist.
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Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
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was created to combat the discrimination that Hispanics face in the United States. Established February 17, 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas
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Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.
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It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
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In the United States, Social Security refers to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
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An American politocan, and a leader of the civil rights movement. She was the first African American elected into the Texas house Senate.
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federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools.
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In 1947 the Ninth Circuit Court in California found that separation "within one of the great races" without a specific state law requiring the separation was not permitted; therefore, segregation of Mexican-American children, who were considered Caucasian, was illegal.
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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.
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A case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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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
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civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980
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Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
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had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement
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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.
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act that kick-started the civil rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week .
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly for her stands on racial issues.
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a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
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A walk for jobs and freedom by african Americans and many others
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act that kick-started the civil rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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rohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States.
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Medicare is a national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965, that guarantees access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease
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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.[2]
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the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,
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prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness.
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first African-American justice.
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decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools.
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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
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he Raza Unida Party was established on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had helped found MAYO
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states or federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
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the U.S. Constitution prohibits unequal funding for public schools in Texas.
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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.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.
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The 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.
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Having a combative character; aggressive, especially in the service of a cause: a militant political activist.
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The doctrine, policy, or practice of rejecting violence in favor of peaceful tactics as a means of gaining political objectives.
