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13th Amendment
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Black Codes
In April 1865, as the war drew to a close, Lincoln shocked many by proposing limited suffrage for African Americans in the South; he was assassinated days later, however, and his successor Andrew Johnson would be the one to preside over the beginning of Reconstruction. -
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Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
After the American Civil War (1861–65), southern plantation owners were challenged to find help working the lands that slaves had farmed. -
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14th Amendment
Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues. -
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15th Amendment
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Lynching
Lynchings took place most frequently against African-American men in the southern U.S. after the American Civil War and the emancipation of all slaves, and particularly from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. -
Plessy v. ferguson
That laws providing for "separate but equal" treatment of blacks and whites were constitutional -
Rosa Parks
Born:February 4, 1913
Died:October 24, 2005
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" -
Hector P. Garcia
Dr. Hector Garcia Perez was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
Born: January 17, 1914
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Lester Madox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971
Born: September 30, 1915
Died: June 25, 2003 -
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19th Amendment
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex. -
George Wallace
Born: August 25, 1919
Died: September 13, 1998
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. -
Cesar Chavez
Born: march, 31 , 1927
Died:April 23, 1993
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
Brown v. ferguson
The United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. -
Orville Faubus
Federal court ordered the desegregation of the Little Rock schools, Mr. Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High. -
Sit-ins
Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local WOOLWORTH'S store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. -
Non violent Protest
The Selma-to-Montgomery March
On March, 7, 1965, a group of protesters began to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in support of equal voting rights. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965. -
Martin Luther King Jr
Played a key role in the American civil rights movement, his assassination in 1968. Inspired by advocates of nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi, King sought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest. -
Desegregation
"Despite the presence of a black executive officer, the ship's second-in-command, many black sailors felt they were dealt harsher punishments and menial assignments because of their race". -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
born in july 2, 1908
died in january 24, 1993