Unti 2 Keyterms

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  • 14th Amendment

    The cause or reason for this addition to the Constitution was to assert that there were equal protection rights of all US citizens including those that were part of a minority group. The concept and implementation of this addition has formed the basis for all modern civil rights laws, disability acts and other actions designed to protect the rights of minority groups.

  • 15th Amendment

    The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    In 1890 the Louisiana State Legislature passed the Separate Car Act, a law that required "equal, but separate" train car accommodations for Black and White people.
    The Separate Car Act was one of the 'Jim Crow Laws' enacted by Southern states, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between Black Americans and White Americans

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim crow laws were laws that enforced racial segregation in the south.

  • Hector P. Garcia

    He was an advocate for Hispanic-American Rights. He was one of the most prominent Mexican civil rights leaders to emerge in the United States immediately after World War II.

  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil disobedience is when you disobey a certain law and disobeying unfair laws as a way of rebellion or search for justice.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall was America's leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Over one-third of states segregated their schools by law.
    Brown v. Board of Education started off as five cases.
    The backlash to Brown v. Board of Education was widespread.

  • Rosa Parks

    Famous for not giving up her seat to a white man demanding her to because of her race. She was later jailed for doing that. She is a very well known civil rights activist.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery.

  • Orval Faubus

    Orval Faubus was a Democratic Governor of Arkansas. He was known for his stand against the desegregation of Little Rock Central High school in 1957.

  • Desegregation

    Desegregation is when you separate two or more groups because of race.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Famous for his "I have a dream speech". He was known for his non violent, peaceful, and effective protests. He was killed on 4/4/1968

  • Sit-Ins

    Students all around the country protested by doing sit ins in white only restaurants until the owner would shut it down.

  • Cesar Chavez

    an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
    A civil rights activist and labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

  • Betty Friednan

    Betty was a civil rights activist and feminist. She is well known for what she's done for women's rights. She is also known for her book.

  • George Wallace

    Gorge Wallace was a politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama. He served two terms as a Democrat.

  • March On Washington

    The event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other disenfranchised groups, and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress. This momentous display of civic activism took place on the National Mall, "America's Front Yard" and was the culmination of an idea born more than 20 years before.

  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox was a restaurant that denied to serve African Americans. He was the 75th governor of Alabama and the Liutenant governor for Jimmy Carter.

  • Lynching

    Lynching was a brutal way of justice for African American people during the civil rights era. The reason for lynching was racism.