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Civil disobedience
Active professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a governments. -
Black codes
It restricted african americans freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy. -
13th amendment
The 13th amendment abolish slavery. -
14th amendment
defining national citizenship and won't let states district basic rights for humans. -
sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
form of agriculture which the landowner allows allows a tenant to us the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their proportion of the land -
15th amendment
Prevents the states from not letting any of the other races vote. -
Jim crows law
segregation of public schools, public transportations, and segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for white and backs. -
lynching
Extra punishment by an group. For example the kkk handing black men -
plessy v. ferguson
It was a law case in 1896 that the supreme court decided to do. For public words they said "separate but equal". meaning they think they are equal by not being together -
CORE
civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
brown v board of education
it was about blacks getting mixed with whites in school. The way they spoke out to it was the little rock 9. Which were a group of 9 african americans that were protected by the government that went to a all white in school but they were criticized by whites everyday. They ended up graduating. -
Montgomery bus boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. -
Orval Faubus
was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967. A Democrat, he is best remembered for his 1957 stand against desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis, in which, by ordering the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School, he defied a unanimous decision of the U.S. Supreme Court made in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education. -
Emmett Till
14 year old kid that came from Chicago to visit his family in Mississippi in 1955. He walked in the grocery store and the white women said she was offended and the white men took him and killed him. -
Little rock nine
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Desegregation
the ending of a policy of racial segregation. -
SCLC
is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil rights act of 1957
primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress -
Sit-ins
were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
