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!3th Amendment
No more slavery. -
Black Codes
The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment
Allowed African Americans to vote. -
Lynching
A punisshment given by a group of people. -
Plessy V Ferguson
This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
Thurgood Marshall
Frist African American in Supreme Court. -
Orval Faubus
Very known for the racist Arkansas Governor and not letting African american students into his high school. -
Rosa Parks
Was a big leader in the bus boycott when she would not give up her seat to a white man and got arrested. -
Lester Maddox
The man who refused to server African Americans and made his own shop daring them to come in. -
19th Amedment
This allowed Women to finally be able to vote -
George Wallace
Governor of alabama and big part of segregation -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Was a big leader in civil rights movement and changed lives and the way we look at things today -
20th Amendment
United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. -
Federal Housing Authority
Sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. -
Borown V Ferguson
Fighting for the rights of intergrated schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
One of the very first large demonstrations on segregation. Protesting for equality on busses. -
Caesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. -
Sit-Ins
This was African Americans standing up to the man and sitting in white owned restraunts taking beatings and tec by whites -
Nonviolent Protest
Is the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests. -
Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. -
24th Amendment
No more poll tax to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Upward Bound
Is a national program that more than doubles the chances of low-income, first-generation students graduating from college so they can escape poverty and enter the middle class. -
Head Start
The Head Start Program is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Created by Lydon B. Johnson -
Affirmative Action
The policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination within a culture. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age or older to vote shall not be denied by the United States on account of age. -
Title IX
A comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
