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bolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864,
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granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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Gave african americans the right to vote.
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upholding racial segregation in public facilities
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He became a lawyer, due to the fact he had great success in his cases.
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He was an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Arkansas. In 1957 he stood against desegregation Little Rock ISD.
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Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in the colored section of the bus.
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Mexican American Surgeon, WW2 vet., civil rights advocate, founder of the american GI Forum.
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75th Governor of Georgia. He refused to serve a black man in his restauant in Atlanta
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Gave women the right to vote.
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45th Governor of Alabama. Was a target or an assasination attempt that left him paralyzed.
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is the refusal to obey laws, demands or commands of the Government.
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an act of terror meant to spread fear among blacks, served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres.
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know as an Latin American civil rights activist. Who cofounded the United Farm Workers Union.
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He made and spoke the i have a dream speech. he was assasinated at the age 39
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dates where set at which federal government elections ended.
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motion to dismiss racial segregation.
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Was a social protest campaign against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama
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Form of direct action that involves one or more people occuping an area to begin a protest.
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were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Practice to achieving goals through symbolic protests without using violence.
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process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.
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laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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Sharecropping was common throughout the South well into the twentieth century, and required the work of entire families
