Key Terms

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    This Amendment was significant in The Reconstruction Era,Because it Abolished Slavery,and Involuntary Services,but was not put as a punishment of crime.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    In 1877, A Democratic Party was in for it to gain power over the blacks and had a Democratic Redeemer to get the government officials of to legislate the Jim Crow Laws.
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes
    Were Laws passed by a controlled Democrat Southern States,in which were Laws Preventing Black African Americans from their freedom.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Was one of the Reconstruction Amendments and contributed mostly from Racial Segregation.Racial Abortion and regarding the same-sex marriage and also this amendment addressed a social issue on the rise such as the citizenship rights and equal protection of rights to former slaves following the American Civil War.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    This Amendment was Significant during the Reconstruction Era,Because it served as a major role in from denial of the right to vole whether of the race color or a previous Service of served In Army Forces.
  • Lynching

    Was said to be an Extrajudicial Punishment by Informal Group and pertain to be Whites and Blacks and was perceived as Black Powerlessness and the White Supremacy going on in the country Of U.S.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    In the year of 1892, Passenger known as Plessy denied to sit on a Jim Crow Car in significance to the Jim Crows laws. That lead to court case settled up in The U.S. Supreme Court and tended to convince the Amendments 13th and 14th because it upheld the “Separate but equal” doctrine.
    On the other hand, there was Ferguson,which was a judge in the court case. Which lead to a making of a doctrine known as the “Separate But Equal.”
  • Non-Violent Protest

    Was Significant because it served as a social meaning of Social Protests,Civil Disobidence,or strictly serving as a civil resistence.
  • C.O.R.E.

    C.O.R.E.
    This Organization was a pivotal role of African Americans in bring the equality for race,sex,creed,age,disabilities,Sexual Orientation,Religion.
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation
    Was Signficant because it served as potential key conflicts of the world wars and the conflict lead to President Truman making an Executive order for segregation to end Military. The First black tuskegee black airman or First Marine corps troops.
  • Civil Disobedience

    Took great part of the civil rights movements because Black African Americans were sick and tired of White Supremacy and its orders surrounding them and this was equate with the Nonviolent Protest.
  • Brown v. Board Of Education

    Brown v. Board Of Education
    The 14th Amendment was Misinterpreted in the Plessy v. Ferguson and Segregation was hurting black African american childrens phsychologically. Although, that may be the case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for both black and white students to be unconstitutional.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Was a great seminal part of the civil rights movement that concurred a factual protest against Racial Segregation.
  • Emmett Til

    Emmett Til
    Was a Lyncher in the Mississippi Area in 1955 and was best know for becoming an Icon of The civil rights movement,but also was Lyncher during this time in the Civli Rights Movement.
  • Marther Luther King, Jr.

    Marther Luther King, Jr.
    MLK was an American Baptist Minister and Participated in the rights for African Americans in The Civil Rights Movement Founder of it too. Was Arrested for Protest, Youngest Man A Nobel Peace Prize, and His Assassination Sparked for the Race Riots,and also he was the President for the SCLC.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Parks was Participated as an activists in the Civil Rights Movement and She Refused to give her seat to a white folk and punished for it and stated from within to go and protest on the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • SCLC

    SCLC
    Was An African American Organization and was relatively associated with the First President,Marther Luther King and had a large role in the civil rights movement.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Was Significant because it was group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. And they were the first of African Americans to attend an all White school.
  • Civil Rights Act Of 1957

    Civil Rights Act Of 1957
    Was Significant Because it served as Voting rights bill that persuaded to be the first federal civil rights Legislation on The US Congress.
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace
    Was Significant Figure during this time in the civil rights movement because he served as a governor of Alabama and was a pro-segregationist of the Jim Crow laws and Ran for the U.S. as president 4 times.
  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins
    Was significant because most of the sit-ins happened in Greensboro,North Carolina and was at the time when a "whites only" counter could have been Illegal.
  • Affirmative Action

    This Laws or Actions were based upon within how discrimination made effects of the African Americans and Were Policies and guidelines.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Was significant because it served in The civil rights movement as symbol to from civil rights activists and rode buses in the Segregation Of the Southern U.S.
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez
    Was an American Civil Rights Activists and also in (CSO) and took a great part in the FLOC. Was a Great Activists.
  • Ole Miss Integration

    Ole Miss Integration
    This Signified that Rioting erupted from James Meredith from Integrating from the University Of Mississippi. And also was known to be part of some of the civil rights movement and was an American Air Force Veteran integrating on an all-white school.
  • U Of Alabama Integration

    U Of Alabama Integration
    Took great part of the segregation University of Alabama and was When African American students Desegregated the U OF Alabama on June 11th,1963.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan
    Was an American Activists and also published a book in 1963 and also founded (NOW).
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington
    The March On Washington was for Jobs and Freedom and also conclude to the passing of the civil rights act of 1964,which lead to the selma movement to passing the voting rights act of 1965.
  • Civil Rights Of 1964

    Civil Rights Of 1964
    Was significant because it was on based within civil rights and US Labor Law the U.S. Outlawed great part Of Discrimination of race,color,sex,religion,national origin.
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia
    Was a priminary Mexican-American Physician,Surgeon and also took part in the World War II,,Civil rights advocate,And Founder of the American of G.I. Forum.
  • Sharecropping/Tenant Farming

    Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
    Was significant because it was when southerners had to get help finding land that slaves farmed on. This took great advange of the former slaves that used to farm there.
  • Voting Rights Act Of 1965

    Voting Rights Act Of 1965
    Was Significant Because it was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and it claimed to aim for overcoming of the Prevention African Americans Voting.
  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots
    This Event Happened between Aug. 11 and 16 1965 in the Watts Neighborhood. This was significant because and African American was drunk driving and a fight broke out of the arresting of the black African American this was caused by Police Racism.
  • Black Panther's Party

    Black Panther's Party
    This Group challenge the The Oakland Police Department and challenge their brutality and was symbolized as Black Nationalism in Part Of the Party.
  • Black Powers Movement

    Black Powers Movement
    Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Alex Rackley, Betty Van Patter,John Frey,Bobby Hutton were all the black panther members including Malcolm that white oppression of De Facto Segregation and The Military Draft. Or This Movement was Based upon Black Nationalism and promoted Black Supremacy.
  • Stokely Carmichael

    Stokely Carmichael
    Was known to take part in the civil rights movement and the global Pan-African Movement and the "Black Power" Movement with Malcolm X. Was a National Chairman of the SNCC in 1966 and 1967.
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox
    Was the 75th Governor of Georgia and also pertain a great campaignee of the states of segregationalism.
  • Orval Faubus

    Orval Faubus
    Where he took a stand against Desegregation of Arkansas National Guard to African Americans from Entering the High School. Governor Of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967.
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall
    Marshall was a lawyer in the case of Brown v. Board Of Education, was also a Chief Legal Counsel of the NAACP. Was well known for speaking up for the voiceless and was the first African American In The Supreme Court Justice.
  • Title IX (9)

    Title IX (9)
    Was Significant because it served as proctection of sex in education programs and activities that receive financial assistance from this Title.