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1 CE
Betty Friedan
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1 CE
Cesar Chavez
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1 CE
Hector P. Garcia
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1 CE
Stokely Carmichael
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1 CE
14th Amendment
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1 CE
Affirmative Action
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1 CE
SCLC
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1 CE
Non Violent Protest
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1 CE
Desegration
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1 CE
Black Codes
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1 CE
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
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1 CE
15th Amendment
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1 CE
Ole Miss Integration
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13th Amendment
Non involuntary servitude (Except as a punishment for a crime) -
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation of the two races. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. -
Lynching
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CORE
An Adrican-American Civil Rights organization in the United States that played pivotal role for african americans. -
Watts Riots
Riots that took place in the watts neighborhood of LA because an african american motorist that was arrested -
Brown v. Board of Education
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Orval Faubus
Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967 and politician -
Emmett Till
Little Boy who got lynched for flirting with a girl in a grocery store. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Movement started by Rosa Parks when she refused to give up her seat on a bus. -
Little Rock Nine
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
A voting rights bill that was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the US Congress -
Civil Disobedience
a peacful form of political protest where people refuse to comply with certain laws. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
A baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
George Wallace
An american politician and governor of alabama, wanted to continue segregation, was against education laws. -
March on Washington
A protest given by MLK when he gave his I have a dream speech. -
U of Alabama Integration
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Sit-ins
People literally sat down to protest and the police were called. -
Freedom Riders
Civil Rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A landmark that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Black Panthers
a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by bobby seale and huey newton -
Thurgood Marshall
First African american to be in the supreme court, and civil rights activists, and lawyer. -
Lester Maddox
An american politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 -
Tittle IX (9)
A law that states no person in the US shall be discrimated against under any education program -
Martin Luther King Jr.
