-
Period: to
Times
-
14th Amendment
This granted citizenship! -
15th Amendment
Gives every MAN the right to vote. -
Plessy V Ferguson
A supreme court case over "seperate but equal". -
NAACP
National Association for the advancement of colored people, they were a nonviolent civil rights party. -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
LULAC
League of United Latin American Citizens was created fight the discrimination that hispanics face in the US. -
Dolores Huerta
Labor Leader and civilrights activist who aided Cesar Chavez. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Longest serving first lady. A civil rights advocate. -
Social Security
Federal Program where old people get money that they have been paying into throughout their work life. -
Mendez V Westminister
This case was a 1946 federal court case that challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an en banc decision, held that the segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional. -
Degaldo V Bastrop ISD
Prohibited segregation of Mexican-Americans. -
Civil Rights Movement
This was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance -
Swear V Painter
This was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Brown V Board of Education Topeka Kansas
Seperate but equal is unconstitutional -
Hernandez V Texas
Mexicans are equal per the 14th Amendment. -
Rosa Parks
Civil Rights activist who was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to s white person. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
All the black people boycotted riding the bus in Alabama for a year. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War. -
Militant protest
Agressive and violent protest -
Great Society
It was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. -
Cesar Chavez
He was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association -
24th Amendment
This was something that prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. 1962 -
Civil Rights Era
A time of reform and equality -
March on Washington
Led by MLK blacks trying to get rights -
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique is a nonfiction book by Betty Friedan first published in 1963. It is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
George Wallace
He was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S -
Black Panthers
This was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
25th Amendment
This was to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. -
Hector P. Garcia
Founded the American GI forum -
MLK Jr
He was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism -
Tinker V Des Moines
This was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools. The Tinker test is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's disciplinary actions violate students' First Amendment rights. -
26th Amendment
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. -
Title IX 1972
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance
