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13th Amendment
The Amendment forbade and ended slavery in the U.S.A..
This was maybe the first step to a integraded nation were everybody will be equal and treated the same. -
Black codes
Southern states passed laws to prevented voting, restricted
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Desegregation
Start f the Civil righs act and other desegregation movements. Desegregetion, when two parties are seperated from each other, usually seperated after races or religion, and integrate into one society and nation, treading everybody the same and all are equal. -
14th Amendment
Every peron, who is born in the US were citizens, with equal rights regardless of their race, and their were protected euqal by the law.
This exclude American Indian tribes. -
15th Amendment
Law to provide African American men the right to vote. -
Tenant Farming/ Sharecroping
Tenant Farming- Poeple where able to rent land so they can grow plan on it and make their own livin.
Sharecroping- people could do te same as in Tenant Farming, and tey had to give some of your harvest with to the land owner. -
Plessy vs. Feruson
The Supreme Court ruled, that states can still make laws using the "seperate but equal" to seperate facilities (bathrooms, theaters, railroad cars), as long as the were euqal, however they weren´t equal at all. -
Lynching
It was a punishment for a crime in the south befor the Civil War.
After the Civil War it was a way for white people to control black people, mostly in te south. The black people where basicly hanged.
Between 1870 to 1940, 5000 black people where killed, sometimes only for lokking at withe people or talking to them. -
19th Amendment
Women porotested for voting rights since 1848.
They sucssesded and all American women got the right to vote. -
Betty Friedan
Acktivist and feminist, who was fighting for more rights for women. She wrote a Book and become very popular. -
20th Amendment
Changes of dates for congressional and presidential terms. -
Federal Housing Authority
United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934.
It provides house owners sme rights and standarts, each house musst had.
This was for all people and no one was reated different. -
Hector P. Garcia
He was a Wold War II Veteran. After war he was a activist and founded the American G.I. Forum. He worked for Mexican and American. He was activ in the politics. -
Brown vs. Furgesoon
Seperated schools were no longer equal. The supreme court ruled that every school should be intergrad able and colored people can go to any school.
It was a major vitory for the civil rights movements, since the educations was no longer seperated and finally really equal. -
Rosa Parks
-She was working for the NAACP,when she heard about Claudette and was inspired an decieded to do the same thing.
-NAACP used her as hea for the Montgomery Bu Boycott
-Wrorked close with MLK Jr. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
-lasted one year fm December 1955 to December 1956
-Ended with the SCOTUS case (Browder v Gayle) and defined segregated buses as unequal
-Started with Claudette and Rosa -
Civil Rights Act 1957
-1st civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
-Protected interference voting rights
-Established Federal Civil
-Against discrimination -
Orville Faubus
-He wa the governor o Arkansas
-desegregation of Little Rock High School
-ordered Arkansas National Guard to prevnt African American students from going into the school
- so the President sent the U.S. Army to bring the lack students to and from school for a hole year -
Affirmative Action
Some demonstrations were they posivitv discriminated unequal sections like education or employment.
They discriminated the unequality and protested for better rights. -
Sit Ins
Large grups of poeple going into one restaurante, which treat a person or a small group of people bad, and dont order anything. They block the space and make the restaurant lose a lo of money, till the owner sees, that he was wrong and change things.
Most well known Sit In event was in in Greensboro, in North Carolina. -
Civil Disobedience
MLK Jr. motivated the people to disobey unjust law.
He and others in the past, sad that it is the mans responcebility to disobey unjust law and that they have to stand up against them. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Abolished any kind of discrimination by employers.
Could not be denied hire or fired for any discriminational reasons. -
Upward Bound
Its a educational program, like the head start.
It proides students with lower income better chances for collage. -
24th Amendment
Prevents Congress and the States from requiring poll tax before you where able to vote in any election. -
Veteran rights act of 1965
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Head Start
The Head Start Program provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. It helps children biulding early years skills and envolve in other conditions, making new interests and friend. -
Cesar Chavez
He was a farmer worker.
Later he and Dolores Huerta. founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
Jim Crow Laws
Racial laws to separate African Americans from the Anglo
population, form of social and political control. -
Lester Maddox
Governor of Georgia
•Restaurant owner, who refused to serve Black people
•He ran for governor altrugth he had no experience
•He was for segregation
-thugh he made lots of improvements to Black employmee and right for equal treattment as governor -
Thurgood Marshall
-Outstanding lawyer of the NAACP
-Argued and won Brown v. Board of Education
-1st African American, who worked or the Supreme Court, as lawyer
- Did geat tings to support the rights of the colored -
Nonviolent Protest
A nonviolente Protest is a protest using no violence in any kind and totaly peacfull. They often have issus like civil disobedience in laws, or economic or political probplems. -
26th Amendment
Ability to vote with 18. No requirement with of a higher age anymore. -
Title IX
Title IX is the Education Amendment. Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination any sex in any federally school or activity.
For ex. in sports or competitons. -
George Wallace
-Governor of Alabama
•Ran 4 times for U.S. President
•Pro-segregationist -
Marin Luther King Jr.
- Leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Was a nonvialent civil right fighter and figthed for equal rights and treatment.
- Rights for Blacks, for deseperation and equal treatment
- Preacher
- Was very often arrested but he cept ging and sucssed.
