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1955 BCE
Nonviolent Protest
This is how many people protest without the use of violent to get what they want. Most would us their voice and body to enforce or to get attention from the ones they wanted. -
Lynching
This is a way of punishing someone that is convicted guilty of a crime.This was done usually by hanging them. lynching was a way for the white to kill african american legally. -
Black Codes
An local law that controlled every aspect of the black peoples lives.This was a way for the white people to pick at the black to make them feel like less than a human. -
13th amendment
This was a law that was enforced eight months after the cilvil war ended. This was that all slaves should be free. This was the beginning of the freedom of black people. -
14th amendment
This was enforced few months after the 13th for the rights of the citizens of the united states. This meant that all citizens had equal rights regardless of their race. -
Sharecropping/Tentant Farming
this was so blacks that really didn't know how to do anything els but farm use to have to go back to doing . They would rent farm land form their previous owner and pay them the money that they earned. -
15th amendment
This granted african american men the right to vote. Even though they were granted this right. The peoples hearts where still prejudice and made it harder to be able to vote . -
Pessy v.Ferguson
Plessy V. ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It stated racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
19th amendment
Guaranteeing women the right to vote.At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with a convention -
Cesar chaves
Cesar Chavez led a boycott that resulted in a collective bargaining agreement guaranteeing field workers the right to unionize. Learn more about how Chavez grew from migrant farm worker to civil rights. His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California. -
Civil Disobedience
This was an ideal developed by Thoreau in response to save his people by not obeying the laws. Such as refusing to pay taxes if you didn't agree with what id was paying for. -
20th amendment
Is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
federal housing authority
is a United States government agency created in part by 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. -
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. -
brown V. Ferguson
This law was force to stop the segregation in the public schools. They figured that the statement "separated but equal " was inherently unequal. -
Desegragation
is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. This is most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, particularly desegregation of the school systems and the military -
Rosa Parks
she was know for not given up her seat to a white man on the bus. After this sparked the boycott of the buses. She also was a member of the NAACP -
Orville Faubus
He was an american politician who served as 36th Governor of Arkansas . He became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School. -
civil right act of 1957
Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress.Was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions -
sit-ins
this is a form of protesting by going into a whites-only restaurant and refusing to leave until you are served but you stay non-violenent. -
affirmative action
Is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture. Historically and internationally, support for affirmative action has sought to achieve goals such as bridging inequalities in employment and pay, increasing access to education, promoting diversity, and redressing apparent past wrongs, harms, or hindrances. -
Betty friedan
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. In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men." -
George Wallace
Pro-segregation "Jim Crow" positions during the mid-20th century period of the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 Inaugural Address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," and standing in front of the entrance of the University of Alabama in an attempt to stop the enrollment of black students. -
Martine Luther King Jr
He was one the main protesters to the non-violent rallys. He wanted equality for not only blacks but all peoples, -
Upward Bound
Emerged out of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 in response to the administration's War on Poverty. In 1965, Talent Search, the second outreach program, was created as part of the Higher Education Act. -
24th amendment
citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
lester madox
He violated the newly signed federal Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three black Georgia Tech students at his Pickrick Restaurant. The Pickrick was noted for the quality of its fried chicken and for its reasonable prices, but Mr. Maddox was determined that no black should experience the ambience that he had reserved exclusively for whites. -
Head start
To help meet the emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs of preschool-aged children from low-income families. In his State of the Union address in 1964, President Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." -
veteran right act of 1965
Important laws affecting veterans and servicemen were enacted by Congress. Signed by President Johnson provides a lo- percent increase in compensation payments to all veterans with a service-connected disability. -
Hector P. Garcia
as a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. As a result of the national prominence he earned through his work on behalf of Hispanic Americans, he was instrumental in the appointment of Vicente T. Ximenez , a Mexican American and American G.I. Forum charter member, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1966. -
26th amendment
Granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older.This is so that younger and older people had rights and more people can put in a vote -
Title IX
The proposed provision that would eventually become Title IX was introduced in Congress by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana in 1971, who was its chief Senate sponsor throughout debate. At the time, Bayh was working on numerous constitutional issues related to women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment, to build "a powerful constitutional base from which to move forward in abolishing discriminatory differential treatment based on sex" -
Thurgood marshall
He is the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court.
