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Civil Disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. -
13th Amendment
Slavery Was Outlawed -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship -
15th Amendment
Voting rights for all races -
20th Amendment
Terms of the president -
19th Amendment
Voting rights for men and women -
26th Amendment
Voting rights for all citizens 18 and older -
24th amendment
Voting rights protected from taxes -
Jim Crow Laws
a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws called after a black character in minstrel shows -
Black Codes
Laws passed by Democrat controlled Southern states i after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting -
Plessy v Ferguson
a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public places under the doctrine of separate but equal. -
Federal Housing Authority
The Federal Housing Administration is a United States government agency created in part by the National Housing Act -
Lynching
kill someone for an alleged cause without legal trail -
Brown v Ferguson
A supreme court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks bus driver's orders to sit in the back of the bus simply because she had black skin & was arrested creating a uproar in the civil rights community causing a boycott to the bus business -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Desegragation
unifying a separated people -
Orville Faubus
Orval Faubus was an American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas who had supported school segregation. -
Civil Rights act of 1957
primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act -
Sit-ins
A form of peaceful but efficient and effective protest, such as the greensboro sit in, in 1960. -
Nonviolent Protest
A protest such as a sit-in that is not aggressive. -
Affirmative Action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination. -
Head Start
Head Start was born of President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty in the middle of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. -
Cesar Chaves
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the highest ranked spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. Also a Segregationist. -
Betty Friedan
an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, -
Hector P. Garcia
Hector Perez Garcia was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum -
Civil Rights act of 1964
landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Civil Rights act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. -
upward bound
Upward Bound programs are implemented and monitored by the United States Department of Education. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was on the supreme court of the united states, serving from 1967 to 1991. Marshall was the Court's first black justice. -
Lester Madox
Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. was an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 and supported segregation.