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15th Amendment
Prohibits that federal and state goverments can not deny a citizen the right to vote. -
13th Amendment
Ablosihment of slavery in the U.S. -
Black Codes
Laws passed in the South after the Civil War. The restricted the blacks. -
14th Amendment
Gives citizens equal rights -
Plessy v. Ferguson
When Plessy a black man set in a ehite car and said it was unconstitutional. The case became a supreme court case but the reasoning did not overturn until the Brown v. Board case. -
19th Amendment
Garentees all women the right to vote. -
20th Amendment
Sets the date to elect offices in the U.S. -
Federal Housing Authority
U.S. government agency that insures loans on homes -
Jim Crow laws
State and local laws enfocing racial segregation -
Brown v. Board
Supreme court case that declared tha blacks and whites attending different schools was unconsitutional. Spark to the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. -
Nonviolece Protest
When the whites would kill the blacks bacause of there color the blacks did not take violece back on the whites. -
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
When landowners contribute their land -
Civil Disobedience
Refual to pay taxes and obey the law -
Rosa Parks
A black women that refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. Witch lead to a bus boycott. She is also another Civil Rights movement leader. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This started the day after Parks arrest it was planed by Nixon. It created the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Martin Luther King Jr. was made president. -
Lynching
Imtimidating the blacks or any racial group -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
When congress showed support for the supreme court case Brown -
Orville Faubus
The governer of Arkansas. He sent the national gaurd into the school that 9 black kids were attending in an all white school. 8 of the nine kids ended up graduating from the school in Arkansas. -
sit-ins
During the Civil War when black people went to sit-in coffee shops that would not serve black people the black people would just sit there to get under the white people's skin. -
Affirmative Action
Policy of favoring menbers of a disadvantage group who suffer from discrimination of a group. -
Cesar Chavez
He inpoved working condissions for all the different races -
Betty Friden
A helper in advancing women's rights -
Martin Luther King Jr.
A social adivist who played a huge role in the American Civil Rights movemnet. He sought equallity for the blacks. He gave his most famous speach on the March on Washington in August of 1963. -
Desegreation
Ending of the Civil Rights Movement. When blacks and whites were the same -
George Wallace
He was the governer of Alabama 4 times. He was a strong support in segreation. He would not let black students attend school in Alabama. -
24th Amendment
Abolishes the poll tax for all federal elections. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
When discrimination was outlawed -
Upward bound
A federally funded program to help kids to college who owes it all to the Econoic Act of 1964 -
Head start
President Liydon B. Johnson and Mr. Shriver used the Office of Economic Opportunity to start a program for childern with low encome families to go to school in the summer before pre-school. Started in the summer of 1965 -
Luster Madox
An american governer from Georgia from 1967-1971. He refused to serve black people at his restaurant after the Civil Rights movent was over. -
Title IX (9)
You can not be denied by your gender. -
Thurgood Marshall
He was a U.S. supreme court justice and and civil rights advociate. He was also the judge in the White v. Regester supreme court case in 1973. -
Hector P Garcia
A cicil rights advocate and founder of the American G.I. Forume -
26th Amendment
Sec. 1 gives all U.S. citizens over the age of 18 the right to vote.
Sec. 2 Congress should have power to enfore the article.