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Jim Crow Laws
The law allowing segregation. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment was an amendment to the United States Constitution, meaning that it was a change to the basic and most important laws that govern the United States. It abolished slavery in the United States. -
14th Amendment
This amendment is the amendment that allows any person to be an american citizen when born in america. Everyone is equal to the law, despite race and gender. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
Sharecropping is 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. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It was a court case between Plessy and Ferguson. In the process, the court ruled that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment. -
CORE
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African American civil rights organization in the U.S. that played a pivotal role for
African Americans in the civil right movement. -
Thurgood Marshall
He was the grandson of a slave. He's the won who won Mr. Brown's case after he [Brown] passed away. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks. It was a 13 months mass protest that ended with the U.S. supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
He was a little boy who was lynched for being black. He had a public funeral, allowing people to see how terrible african americans were being treated. -
Rosa Parks
A woman who refused to move for a white guy on a bus. This also sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Separate but equal, is unequal. He's job was to get kids to schools that were closest to them, which incorporated no longer segregating people by race. -
Orval Faubus
an American politician -
Little Rock Nine
Another group of African Americans students who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The 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. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African American civil rights organization. -
Affirmative Action
This was an outcome of the civil right's movement, intended to provide equal opportunities for members of minority groups and women in education and employment. -
Hector P. Garcia
He was a hispanic veteran and the founder of G.I. Forum -
Non-Violent Protest
This was how many African Americans approached their civil rights. Their protests were non violent, therefore catching the attention of many. Showing how civilized they were. -
Desegregation
The ending of racial segregation. For all to be treated equal. -
Sit-ins
A sit-in is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. -
Lynching
(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
Cesar Chavez
An American labor leader and civil rights activist. -
Ole Miss Integration
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school -
Betty Friedan
American writer, activist and feminist. -
Civil Disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. -
U of Alabama Intergration
African Americans attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Spoke "I Had a Dream" speech, and was a civil rights activist. -
March on Washington
It was the place MLK spoke the "I Had a Dream" speech, and was also the largest protest during the civil rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 enacted July 2, 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. -
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. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act 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. -
Watts Riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angele. An African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. -
Lester Maddox
Wouldn't let african americans in his restaurant, even after that became an illegal act. -
Stokely Carmicheal
Stokely was a civil right's activists. He was the one who made "Black Power" popular. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966. They were also the only violent protest group, but were only violent if provoked. -
Title IX (9)
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.
