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Civil Rights in america
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13th amendment
This made slavery illegal unless it was a punishment for a crime -
Black Codes
Laws made to disgrimnate agaist black people -
14th Amendment
The amendment that stated all people born in the us are us citizens -
15th Amendment
Gave black men the right to vote -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws enforcing sgration -
Plessy Vs Fergson
this trial made segration legal -
Tenant farming
after slavery ended slaves were put in worse situations that they had to work for there ex owners and have to pay for everything and live worse then a slave. -
19th amendment
womens rights to vote -
20th amendment
gives power to the vice president if the president dies -
Federal Housing authority
A goverment orginization that helps provide morages -
Brown Vs Board
Made segration in school illegal -
Thurgood Marshall
was the lawyer in brown vs board of education -
Rosa Parks
She was the first black women not to give up her seat -
Montgomery bus boycitt
From December 1st 1955 to December 20th 1956 the black community of Montgomery decided that the busses were unfair and didn't ride the bus for a year. -
Civil Rights act of 1957
made segration illegal -
Desegration
The process of mixing races -
Civil Disobedience
This is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. -
Lynching
When white people would kill people for the smallest things -
Non-violent protests
were protests used by MLK Jr. -
Sit ins
As peaceful protest the membeers of civil rights movement decided to do the sit ins to prove a point that segration was wrong -
Affirimitive Action
Employment equality -
Orville Faubus
Served as Governer of alabama from 1955 to 1967, he was part of the group of goverment to slow down the civil rights movement -
Betty Friedan
wrote a book in 1963, she was a writer, activist and a feminist -
24th amendment
No voting tax fee -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Discriminition is illegal -
George wallace
Was a governer of alabama and was part of the group that wanted to slow down the civil rights movement -
Veteran Rights act of 1965
Gave military members the right to vote -
Upward bound
Federally founded program for education -
Head start
an education program for all people -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Was the leader of the second civil rights movement -
26th amendment
18 year old have the right to vote -
Lester Maddox
he was the governer that said that said the black couldn't go to their mostly white school -
Title 9
its illegal to discriminate at work -
Cesar Chazes
He was a civil rights activist for mexicans
