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JIm Crow Laws
The law allowing segregation. -
13th Amendment
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. -
15th Amendement
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, or previous condition of servitude. -
Sharecropping/Tenant Farmnig
Sharecropping is a way of farming -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy V. Ferguson was a land mark case that made it the SUPREME court.It was also supportive of the racial segregation laws for public facilities -
CORE
Is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Hector P. Garcia
Was a Mexican American who helped start the G.I Forum which helped with education -
Brown V. Board of Education
was a supreme court case that allowed public schools fro black and white students to go to the same school -
Emmett Till
was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. -
Rosa Parks
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public bus -
Black codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. -
Orval Faubas
An american politician -
Litle Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African American civil rights organization. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
First federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Non-Violent Protest
Is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent. -
Desegration
The ending of racial segregation and for everyone to be treated equal -
Sit-ins
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change -
Lynching
Is when a group of people kill someone mainly by hanging with no chance of having a legal trail -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
Freedom Riders
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
George Wallace
He was the governor of Alabama -
Cesar Chavez
Was a american labor leader and civil rights activist -
Ole MIss Integration
Was a riot on the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Civil Disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. -
U of Alabama Intergation
Alabama governor blocked of the road for the students university of alabama he blocked the door and sent in the state trooper -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
March on Washington
Was a protest for jobs and freedom -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Watts Riots
Watts riots started of as a arrest of suspicion of drunk driving and then led up to riots because rumors went around of police brutality -
Lester Maddox
ester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall served on the Court for the next 24 years, compiling a liberal record that included strong support for Constitutional protection of individual rights -
Title IX (9)
is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
