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13th amendment
"Neither slavery nor involutary servitude except as a punishment for crime wherof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" -
Black Codes
Were laws passed by southern states. The laws had the intent and the effect on African Americans freedom. -
14th Amendment
It granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which set the former slaves free. -
15th Amendment
the right to vote based on the race. -
Jim Cow Laws
Were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States -
Lynching
A punishment by a group of people. It is usually done in a mob it usually also hangs the people. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United State Supreme Court descision requiring racial segreation. -
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Thurgood Marshall
He was apart of the supreme court and strongly supported African American Justice -
Orville Faubus
Was an American Politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas. -
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Rosa Parks
She was known as the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom movement. She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. -
Hector P. Garcia
Was a mexican American Physician founder of the American G.I Forum. -
Lester Maddox
An American Politician who was the 75th governor of the U.S state of Georgia. -
George Wallace
American Politician and the 45th governor of Alabama. -
Civil Disobedience
Is the active refusual to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government. -
19th Amendment
Provides men and women with equal voting rights. -
Betty Friedan
American writer activist and feminst. She led the movement in the united states. -
Cesar Chavez
American farm worker he co-founded the national farm workers association. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
He was the leader in the African American Civil rights movement. -
20th amendment
It sets the dates at which federal government elcected office end. -
Federal Housing Administration
Angency created as part of the national housing -
Brown v. Ferguson
"Are we better off separate than equal" this court case was fighting for the rights to give to African Americans -
Desegregation
Is the process of ending the separation of two groups, whites and blacks. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil rights movements was a campaign against racial segregation. -
Civil rights act of 1957
Voting rights bill was the first civil rights legislation. -
Sit-ins
A group of non violent people who sit -in to protest against racial segregation. -
Affrimative action
known as employments equity in Canada. -
Head Start
Its when the president gets a head start in his champian. -
24th amendment
it took away any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil rights act of 1964
its a landmark that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex of national orgin. -
Upward bound
national program that more than doubles the chances of low- income -
Non violent portest
Is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests. The people who are protesting just take everything all the whites are doing to the African Americans without having to solve everything with violent. -
26th Amendment
the right of citizens of the U.S who are rightenn years of age or older.
