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Amendment, 14th
Amendment, 14th an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government -
Amendment, 15th
Amendment, 15th Ratified in the wake of the Civil War, this amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race or color -
Lyndon Baines Johnson Johnson
36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973) -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) A US civil rights organization set up in 1909 to oppose racial segregation and discrimination by nonviolent means -
Orval Eugene Faubus
(January 7, 1910 December 14, 1994) was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967 -
Hector P. Garcia Hector Perez Garcia
a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum -
• George Wallace George Corley Wallace, Jr.
(August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963-1967 -
Rosa Parks Park
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) -
Amendment, 19th
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis -
Amendment
Amendment A change or addition to a legal or statutory document -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, known for her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
\The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was created to combat the discrimination that Hispanics face in the United States. Established February 17, 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, LULAC was a consolidation of smaller, like-minded civil rights groups already in existence. Since its creation, the organization has grown -
Dolores Huerta Dolores C. Huerta
(born April 10, 1930) is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America -
Federal Housing Authority
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934 -
Social Security
Any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income -
Barbara Charline Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996) was an American politician from Texas -
DELGADO V. BASTROP ISD
DELGADO V. BASTROP ISD. Until the late 1940s the public education system in Texas for Mexican Americans offered segregated campuses with often minimal facilities and a curriculum frequently limited to vocational training. -
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for African-Americans -
Mendez v. Westminster
While Brown v. Board of Education remains much more famous, Mendez v. Westminster School District (1947) was actually the first case in which segregation in education was successfully challenged in federal court. Finally giving Mendez its due, Philippa Strum provides a concise and compelling account of its legal issues and legacy, while retaining its essential human face: that of Mexican Americans unwilling to accept second-class citizenship. -
Brown v. Board of Education
347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional -
HERNÁNDEZ V. STATE OF TEXAS
HERNÁNDEZ V. STATE OF TEXAS. The first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period was Hernández v. the State of Texas. In 1950 Pete Hernández, a migrant cotton picker, was accused of murdering Joe Espinosa in Edna, Texas, a small town in Jackson County, where no person of Mexican origin had served on a jury for at least twenty-five years -
Sweatt v. Painter
SWEATT V. PAINTER. Racial separation by force of law was a historic custom in the United States until the decision of Sweatt v. Painter by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1950. The manner in which segregation of the races by state action in a variety of contexts became established at law, in the face of the Fourteenth Amendment's prohibiting a state from denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, is perhaps best revealed by the c -
Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009 -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009 -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) The SCLC was the black civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) The SCLC was the black civil rights organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy -
Civil Rights Act 1957
In September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of an individual -
Great Society
A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs -
Medicare
(in the US) A federal system of health insurance for people over 65 years of age and for certain younger people with disabilities -
Non-Violent Protests
Non-violent protest) Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. -
Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
Wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962) -
Amendment, 24th
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Affirmative Action
An action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, esp. in relation to employment or education -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (or "The Great March on Washington) Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony during the march. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Black Panthers
Black Panthers - a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites -
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) The United Farm Workers of America (UFWA) (Spanish: Unión de Campesinos) is a labor union created from the merging of two groups -
National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and pushed for legislation guaranteeing equality -
Upward Bound
Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States -
Thurgood Marshall
was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice -
American Indian Movement (AIM)
American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American activist organization in the United States. AIM gained international press when it seized the Bureau of Indian -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, (1969) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' First Amendment rights. -
AZA UNIDA PARTY
AZA UNIDA PARTY. The Raza Unida Party was established on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of 300 Mexican Americans at Campestre Hall in Crystal City, Texas. José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had helped found MAYO (the Mexican American Youth Organizationqv) in 1967 -
Amendment 26th
Amendment, 26th The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18 -
Amendment, 25th
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency -
Kirby EDGEWOOD ISD V. KIRBY
Kirby EDGEWOOD ISD V. KIRBY. In Edgewood Independent School District et al. v. Kirby et al., a landmark case concerning public school finance, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit against commissioner of education William Kirby on May 23, 1984, in Travis County on behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, citing discrimination against students in poor school districts.
