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"...all men are created equal..."
It simply ment want it said, It was to say that no matter your skin, race or what else be, you are equal to someone else that could be totally different. -
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Gay Rights
Starting as early as the 1860's activists from all across the globe have been supporting Gay Rights in small ways, be it publishing books featuring gay love, or publically supporting it. It is an ongoing issue even today. -
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Ku Klux Klan; 1st klan
It was, and is, a racist white supremacy group that was against the rights of African Americans and for the superior treatment and rights of White people. -
13th Amendment
This amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime. -
Black Codes
They were laws passed in the south right after the civil war passed by Southern states at the end of the Civil War to control the labor, migration and other activities of newly-freed slaves. -
14th Amendment
It's purpose was to prohibit state and local government from taking away a person of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. -
15th Amendment
It prohibits state and local goverment from denying a persons right to vote because of skin color, race or previous conditions of servitude. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
It was simply, a federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and made it illegal for exclusion from jury service -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They made it law for all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans, which basically restricted them from using the facility. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
"upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." It was a case where a black make, that was classified as 7/8th white, was arrested for riding on a white train car. -
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Ku Klux Klan; 2nd Klan
It was here that the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population, approximately 4–5 million men. It's influence spread into Canada and Europe. -
19th Amendment
It's purpose was to allow women to vote. -
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African-Americans in World War II
After Pearl Harbor, millions of African Americans flock to US army and navy recruiting stations, munitions plants, factories and more to help the country in the new war. -
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Zoot Suit Riots
They were a series of riots between military servicemen, specifically Marines and Sailors and Latino boys. They were rioting because of alledged stabbings against Sailors by latino's. The Military servicemen targeted the latino's wearing the easially targetable "Zoot Suits." -
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Ku Klux Clan; 3rd klan.
The third installment of the KKK. -
Busing
After the Brown vs. Board of Education. They began using school buses to place students of color in white schools to create racial diffusal. -
Brown vs Board of Education
It was a case where the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
She refused the order of a white bus driver, James Blake, to give up her seat for a white person after the white section was filled. -
"Affirmative Action"
Affirmative action is intended to promote the success of defined minority groups such as Latino or African American. It is often instituted in government and educational settings to ensure that minority groups within a society are included in all programs. -
24th Amendment
It's purpose was to prohibit both Congress and the state goverment from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of taxes. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was a great orator and teacher. He rallied African Americans against oppression using a message of extreme proactivity. Unlike Martin Luther King Jr, though, he believed that if needed, violence should be used. -
Voting Rights Act
An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, specifically to outlaw discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for widespread violation of African American civil rights. -
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
Also called the Bill of Indian Rights, passed a law allowing Native Americans their proper civil rights; Right to free speech, press, and assemblyProtection from unreasonable search and seizureRight of a criminal defendant to a speedy trial, to be advised of the charges, and to confront any adverse witnessesRight to hire an attorney in a criminal case
Protection against self incriminationProtection against cruel and unusual punishment, excessive bail, incarceration of more than one year
