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Brown v. Board of Education
this court case was to challenge the segregation of the public schools, -
13th Amendment
It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude unless it is a punishment for a crime. -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
15th Amendment
it has granted african american men the right to vote -
Tuskegee Institute created
founded by Booker T. Washington, and was for the purpose of training teachers in Alabama -
Plessy v. Ferguson
the separate but equal statement, and it prohibits any state of denying of equal laws to any person -
NAACP Created
the national association for the advancement of colored people, and it helped advance justice for colored people -
19th Amendment
it prohibited any state to deny the right to vote for a women -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
it was designed to give all equal rights for every american citizen regardless if they are male or female -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
when Rosa parks was arrested for denying to give up her seat to a white person, which she was later arrested, and people began to protest to oppose the segregation on the buses -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
was a civil non-violent protest group founded by MLK for the American civil rights movement -
Little Rock 9
the governor of Arkansas Orval Faustus refused to have 9 African american in the little rock high school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
established civil rights division in the justice department -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
non-violent protest that African Americans sat in dine ins and slowly grew in numbers everyday -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
nonviolent committee that was the principal channel of students commitment in the united states -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
murals of the lives of the Mexican Americans throughout the southwest -
Freedom Riders
rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states, but later down the trip was caught on fire. -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
this letter defends the strategies of nonviolent resistance to racism -
March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech
public speech for the civil rights movement and to end racism in united states -
24th Amendment
conditioning the right to vote in federal election on payment of a poll tax or other tax payments
