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15th Amendment
everyone can vote -
13th Amendment
Stated you couldn't make people slaves. with one exception -
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
this is how southern plantation owners found a way to get former slaves to help with their crops -
Black Codes
Restricted african american freedoms. -
14th Amendment
Basically states that everyone is equal and no laws can be made to change it -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that kept people separate -
Lynching
They way they killed people who allegedly broke the law -
Plessy v.Ferguson
gave legal sanctions to Jim Crow segregation laws. -
poesy v ferguson
Gave legal sanction to Jim Crow segregation laws -
Betty Friedan
Helped advance woman's rights movement -
Civil Disobedience
refusal to comply with the law -
CORE
Stands for Congress of racial equality -
Hector P. Garcia
civil rights advocate -
Non-violent Protest
African Americans marched instead of using violence -
brown v board of education
No more separate schools. unconstitutional -
Orval Faubus
kept black kids from being able to attend white schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans stopped riding the bus because they couldn't sit where they wanted -
Emmett Till
Was killed for supposedly flirting to a white women -
Rosa Parks
Started the bus boycott. Her refusing to stand was planned. Her story was the only heard because she was lighter and more educated than the first lady too refuse to stand up. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Little Rock Nine
9 African american students enrolled in a white school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Gave African Americans the right to vote -
Affirmative Action
the outcome of the civil rights movement -
Sit-Ins
African Americans protested by sitting at restraints where they were told they couldn't be served. -
Thurgood Marshall
1st African American Supreme Court Justice -
Freedom Riders
Rode buses that were not meant for them -
Cesar Chavez
American labor leader -
Ole Miss Integration
James Meredith tried to integrate an all white school. Protest breaks out -
U of Alabama
Would not allow black students to attend university -
March on Washington
One of the biggest marches known during the civil rights movement -
Martin Luther King Jr
Civil Rights Leader -
Lester Maddox
refused to serve black customers at his restaurant. -
civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
overcame legal barriers that kept african americans from being able to vote -
Watts Riot
african motorist were arrested for supposed drunk driving -
Stockily Carmichael
became a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. -
Black Panthers
black nationalist .taught self defense -
George Wallace
built his entire political career on segregation. Tried to convince people he wasn't racist. -
Title IX (9)
You can't deny someone the right to education based off of their sex -
Desegregation
Bringing everyone together instead of forcing them to separate.
