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13th Amendment
This Amendment prohibited slavery in the United States -
15th Amendment
This gave U.S. citizens the right to vote and it can not be denied by anyone. -
14th Amendment
This amendment basically says if you are born in America you are automatically a citizen, but even if you aren't born in America you can still become a citizens. And once a citizens none can take away your to pursue life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. -
Sharecropping/ Tennant Farming
A form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. Basically the pay for the Tennant was food. -
Black codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This case involved a segregated train system. Court ruled that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14 amendment. -
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. -
CORE
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a important role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Lynching
The execution of a certain type of person. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
In this case Brown wanted overturn school segregation. The NAACP recruited Brown, then others tried to enroll kids in the nearest school to them. When the schools refused the NCAAP filed a suit. They won and ended school segregation. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. -
Rosa Parks
Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat up. She was arrested in December, 1955. She started the bus boycott. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man and got arrested. For more than a year Black people wouldn't ride the buses and refused to ride public transit. -
Orval Faubus
Faubus was a white man who supported segregation. He sent out the Arkansas National Guard to block off the nine black students who were enrolled in a white school. His efforts were stopped by Dwight Eisenhower who sent in his own troops to protect the nine black kids. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, played a huge role in the civil rights movement. -
Non- Violent Protest
Nonviolent protesting is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent. -
Sit-ins
Sit-ins were people, both white and black, would sit in a restaurant or some place they weren't wanted. But they would be peaceful about it and never caused issues. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
Affirmative Action
Is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture. -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activists who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 -
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan was an activist who promoted women's rights. She was a founder of NOW, National Organization for Women. And she wrote a book for women to seek personal fulfillment outside traditional roles. -
U of Alabama Intergration
When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama in June 1963, Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, literally blocked the door of the enrollment office. -
March on Washington
This was a non-violent protest through Washington, and it is where Martin Luther King Jr gave the infamous "I have dream" speech. -
Stokely Carmicheal
Stokely was a Trinidadian- American who was a political activists and lead a civil rights group called the SNCC. He eventually lost faith in the non-violent way of protesting and associated him self with the Blank Panther Party. -
Civil Disobediance
Refusal to obey laws given by the government. In this case the Black people of Alabama disobeyed the law multiple times when they protested and boycotted. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox was a politician who owned a restaurant called PickRick. The reason he became a big deal was because he didn't allow Blacks into his restaurant. He was a Whites-only restaurateur. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 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. -
Black Panther
The Black Panther group was a anti-segregation group that believed they had to use force to get their point across. -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was a grandson of a slave, he is also the Chief legal counsel for the NAACP. He won the Brown case in 1954, then was appointed to the supreme court of justice in 1967. -
George Wallace
George Wallace was an American politician who was pro segregation. He was the Governor of Alabama and served two consecutive terms. -
Desegregation
The ending of a policy of racial segregation. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mr. King was born in 1929. He was the head of the SCLC, he was known as a fiery, masterful speaker. He was the youngest man to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated April, 1968. -
Title IX (9)
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: "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."
