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This amendment defines our citizenship.
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Gives everybody the right of suffrage regardelss of race, gender, age, ect.
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Born on this date, Eleanor Roosevelt was the first lady who had the longest term. During her husbands four terms, she served as first lady from 1933 to 1945.
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Yet another event in which segregation was questioned in the United States.
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Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991
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He was the 36th president of the Unnited States of America.
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This was established as support for colored people.
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He was the 36th governer of Arkansas.
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She was an african american civil rights activist who is known for refusing to ive up her seat on a bus for a white man.
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Born on this date, hector P. Garcia was a physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
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Gives women the right of suffrage.
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Born on this dtae, George Wallace was the 45th governor of Alabama. After many unsuccessful attemps to become President of the U.S., he was labeled as "The Most Influencial Loser."
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Born on this date, Betty Friedan was an american author. She wrote a book in 1963 called "The Feminine Mystique". Many people say this book started the second wave of American Feminism.
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Born on this date, Cesar Chavez was a Latino farm worker. He cofounded the National Farm Workers Association.
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Born on this date, Martin Luther King Junior was an Afircan- American Civil Rights Activist. He is most known for his "I Had A Dream" speech.
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This was an organization created to stop racial tension with Mexicans.
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Born on this date, Dolores Huerta was a Labor Leader who aided Cesar Chavez in co-founding the National Farm Workers Association.
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This ensures that retired people get money to survive on.
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February 21, 1936 in Houston Texas, Barbara Jordan was born. She was the first black person elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. She was also the first southern black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. When she died she was the first black woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
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This ensures that people will be able to get loans for homes and other big purchases.
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This was the atempt to end segregation of Hispanics in the school system.
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A group made to support racial equality.
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Federal court case that demolished segregation in schools in Orange County, California.
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This questioned the Plessy "seperate but equal" case.
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Lasting from 1950 all the way to 1980, the Civil Rights Movement was the period of time when peope fought for equal rights.
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US 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
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"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009.
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Many misisters and preachers like Martin Luthur King Jr got together on January 10, 1957.
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Led to the integration of many schools in the US.
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This was created to offer seniors and children with disablities proper health care.
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The Great Society was a political idea that promised to end poverty and racial injustice.
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This was the unification of Mexicans and White people.
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these kinds of protests used violence to get their points across.
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This was a tactic used in the 1900's and still today to get points across using non-violent methods, such as marches.
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This commitee was made mostly of college students. They wanted to stop violence and inequality in the U.S.
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This was a way to promote not using discrimination.
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States that people can lose voting rights if they don't pay their poll taxes.
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This was the March for the right to have jobs and integration through Washington.
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This outlawed any and all discrimination in the United States.
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A program that was established to offer early education to chidren with parents who couldn't afford an education for them.
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The goal of this program is to offer better oppurtunities to High School students.
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Defines presidential succession.
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Outlawed discrimaination against voters.
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This group was support for the fight for equal rights for women.
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This group used militant protest to figh for equality.
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Farm workers wated better working conditions.
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This was established in 1968 and focused on soveiranty for the American Indians.
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This case is still used to this day to determine wether a schools diciplinary laws are violating the first admendement.
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Establishes the right to vote for anybody 18 and over.
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Although this was originally written to get rid of discrimination, it ended up energizing the Women Rights movement.
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William Kirby was accused of discriminating agaisnt poor students.
