Key Terms Research

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolishes slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    This amendment defines citizenship as everyone gets the same privileges and are equal
  • 15th Amendment

    You can vot no matter who you are exept if you are a woman
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson, was a very important case in the civil rights movement. The case faught racial segregation in public facilities.
  • 19th Amendment

    You can vote if your a woman too
  • 20th Amendment

    This changed the dates that the President and Vice President get elected on
  • FHA

    Federal Housing is for people that need government help
  • Ceasar Chavez

    He was a american farmer who also was a part in the civil rights movements. He was a pretty important part of the CRM.
  • Black Codes

    These laws enforced segregation
  • ShareCropping

    People Sharing land and farming it for money
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    In this court case the racial segregation in public schools for blacks and whites to be together. This was one of ,if not the most important court cases during the Civil rights movement.
  • Orval Faubus

    He was a politician in america who served as the governor of arkansas. He was for School Integration
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Started in montgomery and spread to all of america. It was when blacks would not ride the bus and protest piecefully
  • Civil Disobedience

    Dictionary Definition: Is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.
  • Nonviolent Protest

    Protesting without violence. This was very common during the CRM
  • Lynching

    This is when anyone could come up to a black person and kill them for anything they did even if it wasnt wrong. This was a very bad thing in the south.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    These were laws that enforced and recomended segregation in the south. Also see Lynching
  • Rosa Parks

    She was an African American activist during the Civil Rights movement . She is known for not giving up her seat on a bus for a white man.
  • CRA 1957

    This is a Voting Act
  • Sit Ins

    A sit in is a way of protesting peacefully. They start by picking a place to go to and then they stay there until they get there way
  • Hector P Garcia

    He was a Mexican american doctor and a WW2 veteran. He was a civil rights advocator. He was a very important person in the CRM
  • Affirmative Action

    Favoring people of a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination.
  • George Wallace

    George was a Politician and governor of alabama. He wanted everything to be segragated. "And I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
  • Betty Friedan

    She was a american writer who beleived in feminism and equal rights. She was a very influencial writer in the CRM
  • 24th Amendment

    This Prohibited Taking away any voting rights with a poll tax
  • CRA of 1964

    There cannot be any discrimination in public. It will be a very bad thing if they do that.
  • VRA 1965

    All Veterans can be reemployed
  • Lester Madox

    It started out with Lester being a restaurant owner. One day he refused to serve a black customer. He got very popular because of this and decided to run for governor. He won and then had no idea of what to do.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    King was a African American who assisted in getting other african americans their rights. He was a baptist minister, Humanitarian, an a great speaker.
  • Desegregation

    This is were there is no segregation and everything is equal. This was not happening during the CRM.
  • 26th Amendment

    Prohibits the denial of the people that are 18 or older to vote
  • Title IX (9)

    No one based on gender can be excluded to any education or government help
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshal was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The was the first African American judge.
  • HeadStart

    Helps with Education and health services for people that need help. Offered by the government
  • Upward Bound

    Education program for people that need heop