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14th Amendment
Grants citizenship to all people born in the US -
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Civil Rights
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15th Amendment
Grants voting rights to African American me -
Plessy vs. Furgeson
upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Amendment
a formal change to the text of the written constitution of a nation or state -
Thurgood Marshal
Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States -
NAACP
Offers assistance to African Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights -
Orvall Faubus
Faubus used the National Guard to stop black children from attending the Little Rock Central High School -
19th Amendment
Gives right to vote to women -
George Wallace
was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms -
Betty Friedan
Wrote the book The Feminine Mystique in an effort to allow women to choose the lifestyles they wanted -
Ceaser Chavez
Championed the economic rights of migrant workers -
LULAC
Offers assistance to Hispanic Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights -
Dolores Huetra
Civil rights leaders that advocated for the basic rights of all citizens -
Federal Housing Authority
a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934 -
Social Security
The original Social Security Act (1935)[2] and the current version of the Act, as amended,[3] encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs -
Barbra Jordan
an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate -
Hector P. Garcia
s a result of the national prominence he earned through his work on behalf of Hispanic Americans -
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD
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Congress on Radical Equality
Membership in CORE is still stated to be open to "anyone who believes that 'all people are created equal' and are willing to work towards the ultimate goal of true equality throughout the world.” -
Mendez vs. Westmister
federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. -
Martin Luther King Jr
Civil Rights Leader most associated with the March on Washington as well as winning the Nobel Peace Prize -
Sweat vs. Painter
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Successfully overturned the Plessey v. Ferguson decision by applying that “separate is inherently unequal -
Hernandez vs. Texas
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Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States along with being one of the first Hispanic and one of the first women. -
Non- Violent Protests
Boycotts, sit ins, walk outs doing anything to make their voices heard without ave to strike anyone. -
Rosa Parks
called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" and began the bus boycott after failing to give her seat up to a white man on the bus -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A peacefull protect cause by the actions O dRosa Parks not giving up her seat on the bus one day. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conferences
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Civil Right Act 1957
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Civil Right Movement
Voting rights legislation, racial discrimination, and leaders emerging from ordinary circumstances to be symbols for civil rights -
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Sit ins, Protest, Petion and any other way students could be apart of a changing cause -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Civil rights leaders that advocated for the basic rights of all citizens -
March on Washington
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history -
24th Amendment
put into place to remove the poll tax from voting d that everyone could vote equaly -
Great Society
Medicare, Head Start, Upward Bound -
Jim Crow laws
Ways law makers had of makeing up new laws o keep african americans from haveing any freedom what so ever. -
Upward Bound
a federally funded educational program within the United States -
Medicare
national social insurance program, administered by the U.S. federal government since 1965 -
Tinker vs. De Moines
Ruling was that the 1st Amendment applies to public schools with regards to regulating speech in the classroom -
Voting Rights Act
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. -
Black Panthers
Used strategies to achieve equal rights, which included violent forms of protest as well as militant groups -
National Organization for women
n organization founded in 1966 and which has a membership of 500,000 contributing members set up for the advancement of women -
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) -
25th Amendment
deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President -
Militant Protest
Rioting and aggressive and violent ways of protest -
American Indian
an agenda that focuses on spirituality, leadership, and sovereignty -
LA Raza Unida
was an American political party centered on Chicano nationalism -
26th Amendment
Passed due to the fact that citizens were being drafted into the military at the age of 18, but were not allowed to vote -
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 to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance -
Affirmative action
known as positive discrimination in the United Kingdom, refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin"[1] into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group -
Edfewoor ISD vs. Kirby
