Civil Rights

By CAZARES23

  • congressional Southern Democrats

    • Are member s of the u.s democratic party who reside in the 19th century, southern democrats comprised whites in south who believed in Jeffersonian democracy

  • Lester Maddox

    • Maddox was an american politician who served as the 75th governor of the u.s state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971
    • He said thats part of american greatness,ids discrimination. yes, sir. inequality,i think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity

  • Mendez v west minister

    • challenged the practice of school segregation in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. They claimed that their children, along with 5,000 other children of "Mexican" ancestry, were victims of unconstitutional discrimination by being forced to attend separate "schools for Mexicans" in the Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and El Modena school districts of Orange County.

  • 22nd Amendment

    • The causes were for that no president should be elected into office more than twice.
    • Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

  • sweatt v painter

    • case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.
    The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education.

  • Brown v board of education

    • de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement,[1] and a model for many future impact litigation cases.[2] However, the decision's fourteen pages did not spell out any sort of method for ending racial segregation in schools, and the Court's second decision in Brown II only ordered states to desegregate

  • Orval Faubus

    • Orval was an american democratic politician who served as 36th governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967
    • he standed against the desegregation of little rock central high schoolin 1957 in 1957, govenor faubus deployed national gaurdsmen to block supreme courts ordered school integregation

  • 23rd Amendment

    • The historical causes of it being possible at the time was because at the time was because it gave the people who lived in washington DC the right to vote for representatives or a president,before they could not.
    • The effects is the amendment was to ensure that the provisions of the 23rd amendment are enforced and Washington DC has it electrical votes applied to elections.

  • George Wallace

    • Georges does a symbolic attempt to keep his promise of ''segregation now, segregation tommorrow, segregation forever'' and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two black students,Vivian Malone and James hood

  • 24th Amendment

    • The causes was for that every american could vote equally for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

  • civil rights act

    • The cause of the civil rights act was because of discrimination on the basis of race.
    • Banned discrimination and segregation on the basis of race, religion, national origin and gender in the workplace, schools, public accommodations and in federally assisted programs.
    • Ushered in a new era in american civil rights as discrimination on basis of race, color, religion, sex or national religion was outlawed

  • Voting Rights Act

    • The cause was to over come legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th amendment
    • The effects was between 1965 and 1990, the number of black state legislators and members of congress rose from two to 160. The voting right s act was extended in 1870,1975, and 1982

  • La Raza Unida

    • Raza unida party was established on January 17,1970 at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans in crystal city,TX by Jose angel. the goal was to bring better greater economic, social and political determination to Mexican Americans in texas