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Civil Disobedience
It is the active professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and comands of government or of an occupying international power. -
13th Amendment
No slavery, all slaves are to be freed. Abolish slavery -
14th Amendment
Equal protection of laws. Which in the case of Brown V. Board of education, this law was violated. -
Black Codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
15th Amendment
This amendment granted afican americans the right to vote. Eventhough there was a "test" that they had to pass. Which the "test" was absurd. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
states can constitutionally
enact legislation (laws)
requiring persons of different
races to use “separate but
equal” segregated facilities -
Hector P. Garcia
Dr. Hector Garcia Perez was born in 1914 and was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
19th Amendment
The amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. -
Lynching
It is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob, often by hanging, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. -
Jim Crow Laws
Mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. -
Cesar Chavez
Was an american farm worker. Later on he became a lobor leader and a civil rights activist. With Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers association. -
20th Amendment
To the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the President and Vice President from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. -
Federal Housing Authority
United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. It sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. -
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Desegregation
Ending the separation of two groups usualy refffering to races. Like Brown V. Board of education. They desegregated kids from going to different schools because of their race. -
Brown V. Ferguson
United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spar -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
his started with Rosa parks, who refused to give her seat then, many others decided not to get on buses. -
Civil Right Act of 1957
A voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. -
Orville Faubus
He was an american politician who served as governor of Arkansas. He was against desegregation and ordered the Arkansas National Guard to stop black kids from attending Little Rock Central High School. -
Sit-ins
The tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. Especially Greensboro, North Carolina; they launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation. -
Nonviolent Protest
The main leader was Martin Luther King Jr. He was a pastor, activist, humanitarian and leader of the civil rights movement. -
Affirmative Action
The nature of affirmative action policies varies from region to region. Some countries, such as India, use a quota system, whereby a certain percentage of jobs or school vacancies must be reserved for members of a certain group. In some other regions, specific quotas do not exist; instead, members of minorities are given preference in selection processes. -
Betty Friedan
Was an American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King's speech "I have a Dream," told to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. With the speech, it influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more fully realize racial equality. -
George Wallance
He was the 45th governor of Alabama. He is remembered for his southern populist and segregationist attitudes during the mid 20th century period of the african american civil rights movement and activism. -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1957
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Veteran Rights Act of 1965
It allowed, for the first time, millions of Americans to truly participate in our democracy. -
Upward Bound
A federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs now referred to as TRIO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (the War on Poverty Program) and the Higher Education Act of 1965. -
Lester Maddox
He was a governor from 1967 to 1971. At first he refused to serve blacks at his resaurant. He ran for governor and was chosen, and it was then that he oversaw notable improvements in black empployment. -
Thurgood Marshall
In 1954, he argued the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the Supreme Court of the United States, a case in which racial segregation in United States public schools was declared unconstitutional. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
Title IX (9)
It is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. -
Rosa Parks
She became known as the "first lady of civil rights." December 1 was the day she got arrested for not giving a white man her seat. She refused after the bus driver told her to move. Many others followed her steps.
