Unit 2 civil rights in America key terms

Civil Disobedience

Oct 8, 1849

Active refusal to obey certain laws, demads, and commands of government.

Black Codes

Oct 15, 1865

Resticting African Americans freedom.

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

Citizenship rights and equal protections of the laws.

Plessy V. Ferguson

Oct 9, 1896

A landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requring racial segregation in public facilities.

Thurgood Marshall

Jul 2, 1908

An Associate Justice of the Untied States Supreme Court.

Orville Faubus

Jan 7, 1910

An American Politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas.

Rosa Parks

Feb 4, 1913

African-American Civil Rights activist, who the United States Congress called the "first lady of Civil Rights".

Hector P. Garcia

Jan 17, 1914

Mexican American physician, surgeon, world war 2 veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I forum.

Lester Madox

Sep 30, 1915

American Politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. State of Georgia.

George Wallace

Aug 25, 1919

American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms.

Betty Friedan

Feb 4, 1921

An American writer, Activist, and feminist.

Cesar Chaves

Mar 21, 1927

American farmer, labor leader and civil rights activist. Dolores Huerta and him co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jan 15, 1929

American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movements.

20th Amendment

Jan 23, 1933

Federal government elected offices end.

Federal Housing Authority

Oct 15, 1934

sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks.

Brown V. Board

May 17, 1954

Supreme Court case in which the court declared state law that black and white students were to be separated.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 1, 1955

A seminal event in U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public trasportation system.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

Civil Rights legislation passed by congress.

Sit-Ins

Feb 1, 1960

THe act of non-violent student sit-ins.

24th Amendment

Jan 23, 1964

Don't have to pay to vote

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

A landmark piece of civil rights legislation.

Veteran Rights act of 1965

Oct 15, 1965

Allowed millions of Americans to truly participate in our democracy.

Head start

Oct 15, 1965

Helps children 5 and under get ready for school.

Upward bound

Oct 15, 1965

Federally funded educational program within the United states.

26th Amendment

Jul 1, 1971

You can vote when you turn 18.

Title IX (9)

Jun 23, 1972

Prohibits discrimination on the bias of sex in any federally funded education progam or activity.

nonviolent protest

Oct 15, 2015

Practice of acheiving goals through symbolic protests.

Jim Crow Laws

Oct 15, 2015

Laws enforcing racial segregation in the southern United States.

Desegregation

Oct 15, 2015

Proccess of ending the seperation of two groups.

19th Amendment

Oct 15, 2015

equal voting rights for men and women

Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

Oct 15, 2015

Requirred work from the entire family

Lynching

Oct 15, 2015

extrajudicial punishment by an informal group

13th Amendment

Oct 15, 2015

Abolished slavery

Affirmative Action

Oct 15, 2015

Favoring members of a group who suffer from discrimmination within a culture

15th Amendment

Oct 15, 2015

prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.