Civil Rights In america

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    Civil Rights in america

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    This made slavery illegal unless it was a punishment for a crime
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes
    Laws made to disgrimnate agaist black people
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    The amendment that stated all people born in the us are us citizens
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    Gave black men the right to vote
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Laws enforcing sgration
  • Plessy Vs Fergson

    Plessy  Vs Fergson
    this trial made segration legal
  • Tenant farming

    after slavery ended slaves were put in worse situations that they had to work for there ex owners and have to pay for everything and live worse then a slave.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    womens rights to vote
  • 20th amendment

    20th amendment
    gives power to the vice president if the president dies
  • Federal Housing authority

    A goverment orginization that helps provide morages
  • Brown Vs Board

    Brown Vs Board
    Made segration in school illegal
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall
    was the lawyer in brown vs board of education
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    She was the first black women not to give up her seat
  • Montgomery bus boycitt

    Montgomery bus boycitt
    From December 1st 1955 to December 20th 1956 the black community of Montgomery decided that the busses were unfair and didn't ride the bus for a year.
  • Civil Rights act of 1957

    Civil Rights act of 1957
    made segration illegal
  • Desegration

    Desegration
    The process of mixing races
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience
    This is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.
  • Lynching

    Lynching
    When white people would kill people for the smallest things
  • Non-violent protests

    Non-violent protests
    were protests used by MLK Jr.
  • Sit ins

    Sit ins
    As peaceful protest the membeers of civil rights movement decided to do the sit ins to prove a point that segration was wrong
  • Affirimitive Action

    Employment equality
  • Orville Faubus

    Orville Faubus
    Served as Governer of alabama from 1955 to 1967, he was part of the group of goverment to slow down the civil rights movement
  • Betty Friedan

    wrote a book in 1963, she was a writer, activist and a feminist
  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment
    No voting tax fee
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Discriminition is illegal
  • George wallace

    George wallace
    Was a governer of alabama and was part of the group that wanted to slow down the civil rights movement
  • Veteran Rights act of 1965

    Veteran Rights act of 1965
    Gave military members the right to vote
  • Upward bound

    Federally founded program for education
  • Head start

    an education program for all people
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Was the leader of the second civil rights movement
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment
    18 year old have the right to vote
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox
    he was the governer that said that said the black couldn't go to their mostly white school
  • Title 9

    its illegal to discriminate at work
  • Cesar Chazes

    Cesar Chazes
    He was a civil rights activist for mexicans