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!3th amendment
Eight months after the civil war slavery was officially against the law -
Black code
Having African americans working on low wages and poor work enviroment -
14th amendment
Granted citizen ship to everyone in the United States who were born or naturalized -
15th amendment
Gave the right to African Americans men the right to vote -
Lynching
A group of people who take it into their own hands to punish someone but mostly african americans and they hang them -
Sharecropping/tenat farming
The land owner allows a tenate to use the land inreturn for a share of the crops -
Plessy V. Ferguson
"Seperate but Equal" Had allowed them to go places but looked horrible then what the whites had -
19th amendment
Gave the right to women to vote -
Federal Housing Authority
This organization is used to improve housing standards conditions, provide an nice home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market. -
Thurgood Marshall
A lawyer who arugued and won the Brown V. Board of eduaction case -
Rose Parks
The police arrested her because she refused to give her seat to a white man. -
Montgomery Bus boycott
It started when rosa parks refused to give up her seat and when Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat -
Orville Faubus
He ordered the national guard to stop African Americans from entering the school but the president sent the us army to escort them throught the day for a year. -
Sit Ins
4 Students sat a whites only counter and refused to move what was only 4 people turned into 300 people -
George Wallce
He was against desegregation he didn't want it to happen -
24th amendment
/prohibiting to any poll taxes in any state -
Civil rights Act of 1964
Stopped discrimnation with color, race, religion, and sex -
upward bound
doubles the chances for low income first generation students graduating so they can escape proverty and join the middle class. -
Veteran rights Act of 1965
Voting rights -
Head Start
Provides early childhood education, health, nurtution, and parent involvment services to low income children and families. -
Lester Madox
Ran for governer when enough people knew about him when he wouldnt serve african americans in his resturaunt -
Desegregation
Giving equal rights to everyone and letting them go to the same places as everyone else -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader of the civil rights movement
Gave his I have a Dream Speech during the March on Washington -
Jim crow laws
Segregation not being able to go to the same place as the whites such as public schools, drinking fountains, theaters, resteraunts, and bathrooms -
Betty Friedan
leader of the womans movement in new york city attracted over 50,000 women and men -
affirmative action
Treated equal without regard tot heir race, color, creed, or natural orgin. -
26th
18 or older could now be able to vote -
Title IX
Federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
Civil disobedience
The refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of the goverment -
Cesar Chavez
Best known as the Latino American Civil rights activist he worked with getting hispanics and getting them a job but as well as getting them their rights -
nonviolent protest
Protesting without using violence -
Hector P. Garcia
He was a civil rights Advocate worked agaisnt poll taxes and segregation -
Civil rights act of 1957
A voting rights bill was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. -
Brown V. board of education
The U.S. Supreme court ruled that racially segregated schools are unequal
