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13th Amendment
bolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, -
14th Amendment
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment
Gave african americans the right to vote. -
plessy v. ferguson
upholding racial segregation in public facilities -
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Thurgood Marshall
He became a lawyer, due to the fact he had great success in his cases. -
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Orville Faubus
He was an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Arkansas. In 1957 he stood against desegregation Little Rock ISD. -
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Rosa Parks
Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in the colored section of the bus. -
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Hector P. Garcia
Mexican American Surgeon, WW2 vet., civil rights advocate, founder of the american GI Forum. -
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Lester Maddox
75th Governor of Georgia. He refused to serve a black man in his restauant in Atlanta -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote. -
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George Wallace
45th Governor of Alabama. Was a target or an assasination attempt that left him paralyzed. -
Civil Disobedience
is the refusal to obey laws, demands or commands of the Government. -
Lynching
an act of terror meant to spread fear among blacks, served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres. -
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Cesar Chavez
know as an Latin American civil rights activist. Who cofounded the United Farm Workers Union. -
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He made and spoke the i have a dream speech. he was assasinated at the age 39 -
20th Amendment
dates where set at which federal government elections ended. -
Brown v. Ferguson
motion to dismiss racial segregation. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a social protest campaign against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama -
Sit-ins
Form of direct action that involves one or more people occuping an area to begin a protest. -
Jim Crow Laws
were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Nonviolent Protest
Practice to achieving goals through symbolic protests without using violence. -
Desegregation
process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. -
Black Codes
laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. 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. -
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
Sharecropping was common throughout the South well into the twentieth century, and required the work of entire families
