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13th Amendment
gave african americans the right to vote -
Lynching
an informal punishment enforced by a group who do not have the legal authority to do so. Lynching is a kind of mob justice, in which ordinary people come together to terrorize or punish someone that they feel has violated a legal, moral, or social standard. -
Jim Crow Laws
tate and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. ... They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans in railroad cars. -
Plessy v. Feurgson
It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. -
Affirmative Action
the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture. -
Civil Disobedience
the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. -
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. -
Desegregation
the ending of a policy of racial segregation -
Sharecropping
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. -
Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
emmett Till
was murdered by white men for "saying hey baby to a white woman. he was only 14 and then recently said he never even said that or anything to her. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws segregated buses to be unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, and was taken to jail. -
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. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School and fought to integrate it. -
Orval Faubus
American politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967. he is best remembered for his 1957 stand against desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis. -
Lester Maddox
an American politician who served as the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,[1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. -
Non violent protest
MLK JR... -
Sit-ins
A sit-in or sit-down 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. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United -
Cesar Chavez
American civil rights activist -
ole miss integration
On September 30, 1962, 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
an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States -
March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He gave a speech "I have a Dream" and was a part of the March on Washington. -
civil rights act of 1964
outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
U of Alabama Integration
They were the most racist state at the time and didn't want to integrate but had to when slavery and segregation became illegal -
Black codes
aws 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
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
took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. -
Hector P. Garcia
a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. He is most famous for fighting for civil rights for mexican americans -
black panthers
a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Stokely Carmicheal
a 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. -
14th amendment
gave blacks citizenship -
George Wallace
He was a Governor of Alabama, and wanted to keep America segragated. -
Title IX
Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a federal law that states: "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." -
Thurgood Marshall
A lawyer, politician, and a supporter of racial segragation. -
15th amendment
Gave african americans the right to vote
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