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Sharecropping/ tenant farming
Taking advantage of the former slaves' desire to own their own farms -
Black codes
laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states after the Civil War which restricted african americans freedom -
Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld the state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of ,separate but equal -
Jim crow laws
state and local laws which enforced racial segregation in the Southern U.S. -
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Thurgood Marshall
first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Judge, Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice, Lawyer. helped win the brown v. board of education -
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Orval Faubus
American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967 -
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Rosa Parks
activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" -
Hector p garcia
Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
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Desegregation
and example of desegregation would be like the brown v board of education how they mad the schools equal instead of keeping deferent religions and ethnicity separate -
Betty Friedan
her book The Feminine Mystique (1963)
helped advance the women’s rights movement as one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister, activist who became a visible spokesperson/leader in the Civil Rights Movement. famous for i have a dream -
stokely carmichael
Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement. He grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while he attended Howard University. -
Core
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
civil disobedience
refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government 1950s - 1960s -
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Brown v. Board of Education
The supreme court ruled the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
non violent protest
"African-American Civil Rights" era, the predominant use of protest was nonviolent, or peaceful. ... During the 1950s and 1960s, the nonviolent protesting of the Civil Rights Movement caused definite tension, which gained national attention. -
lynching
hanging someone with or without trial -
emmet till
14 year old who was tortured shot and hung for "saying" bye baby to a white lady on the way out of a store -
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montgomery bus boycott
a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
sclc
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
civil right acts of 1957
a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875 -
little rock nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Sit-ins
nonviolent protests in Greensboro, N.C, in 1960. led to the Woolworth department store removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States -
Affirmative action
ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin. -
freedom riders
rode interstate buses to the segregated southern U.S, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge non-enforcement u.s -
cesar chavez
American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. -
ole miss integration
University of Mississippi in Oxford locals, students, and segregationists gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
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George Wallace
an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat. wanted segregations -
u of alabama integration
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama -
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March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. -
civil rights act of 1964
outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
voting rights act of 1965
prohibits racial discrimination of voting -
watts riots
an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving -
Black panthers
black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton -
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Lester Maddox
American politician served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. he refused to serve colored people in his restaurant he owned -
title IX
"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." ninth amendment -
the 13th amendment
abolished slavery in the U.S. forever. -
15th amendment
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. -
14th amendment
Stated that everyone born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen & was entitled to equal protection of the law.
