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Affirmative action
The favoring of those who are discriminated on mainly african americans back during segregation. -
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SSLC
This allows students that are not fluent in english to have a secondary level education learning in different ways that they can understand due to not speaking fluent english. -
Civil Disobedience
Refusing to comply a law or rule that you do not agree with -
Black codes
These laws were passed after the civil war restricting blacks rights to freedom and the rights that whites had at the time. -
ShareCropping/Tenant Farming
The land owner allows a "tenant" to farm on his land in exchange for share of the crops raised on the part of the land being used. -
13th amendment
This amendment abolished slavery -
15th amendment
This amendment kept states from keeping the rights or laws from colored -
jim crow laws
These laws were about how whites and blacks should stay separate. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This event is over homer plessy refusing to sit in a jim crow car.This case is from Louisiana in 1890.In a 7-1 vote he lost due to people thinking that law is very clear on stating. -
CORE
This was a civil rights activist group formed to stop segregation and fought to stop it for many years. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was a supreme court case about the segregation of whites and blacks in public schools they deemed it unconstitutional for this to keep going on. -
U of Alabama Integration
The governor of alabama blocked enrollment doors so that african american students could not enroll in the school. -
Emment Till
This was a young black boy that talked to a white lady and was beaten and set on fire by 2 white men. -
Rosa Parks
A civil rights activists that sat on a bus in the whites only section and did not get up for anyone until she was arrested because she was black and sat in a whites only section on a bus she also had many more things to do with segregation -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
People mainly civil rights activists would ride on a bus into towns in the south as a form of protest the would get burned and hurt the bus was set on fire. -
Civil rights act of 1957
Peoples right to vote could not be taken based on race,color or religion -
Little Rock Nine
9 black churn enrolled in little rock high school and were guarded by the military all the way up to the doors of the school they had to deal with bullying abuse and emotional abuse. -
Desegregation
The act of ending separation of races and making it possible for blacks and other races be together with the whites -
stockely carmichael
He is a political activists part of the SNCC in the 1960s -
sit-ins
Going into diners or places not moving or doing anything as an act of protest. -
Freedom riders
Civil rights activists that rode buses into segregated towns in the south -
cesar chavez
He was a civil rights activist and co founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. -
Ole Miss integration
A black man tried to enroll into the university of Mississippi and a bunch of segregationists had riots on campus because the did not want him to enroll -
Betty Friedan
She was an activist feminist during the women movement.She wrote a book called 1963. -
March of Washington
A march held in the capital Many speeches were held there that day talking about civil rights during segregation era -
Civil rights act of 1964
This act says that no one should be discriminated based on race, color,sex or religion. -
Voting rights act of 1965
voting should not be taken away based on race -
watts riots
An african american driver was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving so riots started in watts los angeles -
Black panthers
A revolutionary group fighting for civil rights during segregation -
Orval Faubus
He was the 36th governor of arkansas -
Lynching
Lynching is when people would kill mainly hang people with nooses from trees.This happened when slavery and segregation. -
Martin Kuther King Jr.
In august of 1963 on the 28th he made a speech called i have a dream he fought for civil rights during the segregation era and mad people see the other side of the story. -
lester maddox
He was the 75th governor of georgia from 1867-1971.He did not like blacks he wouldn't let them into his diner if they tried he had pick ricks tooth picks and would poke them until they leave. -
Title IX
No one should be left out of participation based on sex -
Thurgood marshall
He was associate justice of the supreme court from 1967-1991.He was the courts first black justice. -
14th Amendment
The right to not have your rights taken away if you are a U.S citizen.If you are american or were naturalized in the U.S your rights can not be taken from you. -
hector p . garcia
founder of the american g.i. forum -
Non-violent protest
When achieving something through non violent actions such as symbolic protests
