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Civil Disobedience
This was a book written by Henry David Thoreau. He wrote this with slavery and segregation in mind. -
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
Conflict arose after the civil war due to white men trying to reestablish a labor force. While freed blacks are seeking economic independence and autonomy. -
Black Codes
The 'Black Codes' were laws passed by Southern states after the cicil war. These laws had the intent to restrict African Americans from their freedom. -
13th Amendment
This amendment secures African Americans right to be free and not enslaved anymore. With this amendment the emancipation proclamation plays a huge role in the process in getting this amendment passed. -
14th Amendment
Gives African Americans their citizenship. -
15th Amendment
This amendment gives African Americans the right to vote, the males at least. It says that the right to vote shall not be taken away or denied due to anybodies race, skin color, religion, or anything else that makes them different from one another. -
Lynching
Lynching is an punishment by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions in order to punish a person or to intimidate a group. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities. A landmark constitutional law case. -
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality was one of the leading activist organization. They launched the Freedom Riders and the March on Washington. -
Sit-ins
A sit-in is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest.The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) did sit-ins as early as the 1940s. -
Hector P Garcia
Founder of american GI Forum. He was a Mexican-American physician. He was a civil rights advocate. -
Jim Crow Laws
It got its name because a white minstrel character imitated popular Negro crooning and dancing. These laws were passed by Southern states that had created a racial system. These laws quickly created two very separate societies based on race. Blacks and whites couldn't go to the same schools, the same restrooms, same place to go and eat, or even the same seat on the bus. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Said segregation in schools were unconstitutional. It overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson decision. Was a major victory for the civil rights movement. -
Thurgood Marshall
Helped win the case of Brown vs Board of Education. He had a high success rate at arguing before the supreme court. -
Emmet Till
Emmitt Till was lynched by two white Mississippi men who claimed that he had talked good at a white woman in a store. His death opened the eyes of many who didn't know what was happening. -
Rosa Parks
Refused to follow bus drivers orders to move. Basically started the Montgomery bus boycott. Fought against racial inequality. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott became a thing when Rosa Parks decided that she didn't want to sit in the back. So she got put into jail so other African Americans decided to boycott all the buses. All buses were empty till the people agreed to end it. -
Orval Faubus
Governor that fought against desegregation of the Little Rock school community. He defied the Brown vs Board of Education. Wanted to prevent the Little rock nine from happening. -
Little rock nine
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Ernest Green who was one of the kids was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. -
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups. Desegregation was long a focus of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Southern christian leadership conference (SCLC)
A civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. Founded right after the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Civil rights act of 1957
The purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was to show the federal government's support for racial equality following the Supreme Court's Brown V Board decision. -
Affirmative Action
Throughout the Civil Rights Movement African Americans were taking affirmative action. They did petitions and all the different cases taken to court that had to do with segregation. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders was a group created by the CORE organization in which groups traveled on buses and trains into the Deep South. During these trips they protested against segregation in the interstate bus terminals. -
Cesar Chavez
Co founded the national farm workers association. Helped lead civil rights movement. Spoke for the Latinos and Mexicans. -
Ole Miss Integration
They are riots formed on the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They protested the enrollment of a black Air force veteran attempting to go to an all white school. -
George Wallace
He stood for segregation. He loved segregation and always wanted it. He even said "Segregation now, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever." -
University of Alabama Integration
When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama Alabama’s new governor blocked the door of the enrollment office. President John F Kennedy then sent National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. -
March on washington
A civil rights protest in Washington. The I have a dream speech was spoke there. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Its purpose is to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Won the nobel peace prize. Combated racial inequality thru his life. He led the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Lester Maddox
Restaurant owner that fought against letting colored people into his establishment. He owned the PickRick restaurant. He confronted people he did not want in his restaurant with axe handles. -
Voting rights act of 1965
It was made to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment -
Watts Riot
Riots broke out after two white police officers accused a black motorist of drunken driving. These riots lasted about 5 days. -
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was given the credit for making "Black Power" popular. He was put into jail for his work with the Freedom Riders. -
Non-Violent Protest
Is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation.T his type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group. -
Black panthers
A civil rights militia group. It was called a great threat to the country by some people. -
Betty Friedan
Organized a women's strike for equality.She was a writer and a female activist. She was a strong supporter of the equal rights amendment. -
Title IX
Title IX allows everybody to be allowed an education no matter the skin color or the race or even their gender. Everybody is given the same schooling right no matter what the circumstances are.
