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Civil Disobedience
IS the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power, -
Black codes
it happened in 1865 and 1866
These were laws passed by the southern states. having an effect of restricting African Americans freedom and persuading them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or dept. -
13th Amendment
it was passed by congress on January 31 1865.
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. -
15th Amendment
this granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It was a court case with the decision to upholding the consttutionlity of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal. this court cast went to the supreme court case. -
lynching
is an extrajudicial punshment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging. -
THurgood Marshall
He was the first African-American justice, he was an associate justice of the united states supreme court, serving from october 1967 till october 1991 -
Orville Faubus
He was the governor of Arkansa, serving from 1955 to 1967. He was against the desegragation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Rosa Parks
She was an African-American Civil Rights Activist. She was arrested for refusing to stand up on the bus to give the seat to a white person. -
Hector P. Garcia
He propelled the G.I. form to the for efront of the movement for civil rights. -
Lester Madox
He was an owner of a restaurant whish he refused to serve black customers. When he was governor he oversaw notable improvements in black employment. -
George Wallace
Govenor of Alabama from 1963-1967 -
19th Amendment
This granted women the right to vote. -
Betty Frieden
She was an American writer, Activist, and femimst. She was a figure in the womens movement. -
Cesar Chavez
HE was a leader and Civil Rights activist, and was an Amercrican farm worker. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was a leader in the Africn-American Civil Rights Momement. He made the speech "I Have a Dream" Assassmated april 4 1968 -
20th Amendment
this sets how long the president is in office and who will replace him if he dies. -
Federal Housing Authority
This is a government agency creatied as part of the natinal housing act. -
Nonviolent Protest
it was in the 1950s and 1960s
This means no direct-action protest, including sit-ins, organizations forming. -
Jim crow laws
These are state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern united states. -
sharecropping/tenant farming
it is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tentant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Brown V. Board
It was a supreme court case. It was declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Desegregation
IS the process of ending the separation of two usually referning to races. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
lasted till december 20, 1956.
It was a political and social protest against racial segregation on public transprotation in Montgomery Alabama. -
Civil rights act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil right act of 1957. This was the first occasion since reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protest civil rights. it still included a number of important provisions for the protection of voting rights. -
Sit-ins
These where non-voilent sit-ins. A major one was the greensboro sit-in at a weelworths in Greensboro, North Carolina. This went across to others who also did other sit-ins. -
Affirmative action
These are polllices that an institution or orginization activily engage efforts to improve opportunities for historicly excluded groups in american sisiaty. -
24th amendment
THis allows people to no long pay a fee to vote. -
Civil rights act of 1965
This voting right was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. This was to overcome barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their rights to vote under the 15th amendment. -
Head start
Provides education oppertunities to low income children and their families. -
upward bound
Theuy were created through congressional legislation as respose to the civil rights movement. -
14th Amendment
This right granted citizenship to all who where born in the United states. -
26th amendment
Right to vote to people 18 years or older. -
Title IX
this is a law that prohibitis discrimination based on sex for educational programs.
