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Jim Crow Laws
Were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming
A type of farming in which a land owner lets a farmer ot tenant use his land and has to pay rent and or a share of his crops. -
13th Amendment
The Constitution said that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally ending slavery in the United States. -
Black Codes
Were laws passed by southern states, there intent was to keep the races segregated and to restrict African American Freedom. -
14th Amendment
This granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment
The Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Lynching
An informal prosecution produced by a mob, common during the Civil RIghts Era. -
Plessy V. Fueguson
Plessy Vs. Ferguson was a trail that invloved a black man trying to stand up for his race against segregation. He felt as though the, "seperate but equal" docrine, wasn't actually equal. Sadly, Ferguson, the defendent, won the case against Plessy. -
Thurgood Marshall
Was the first African American to be a part of the Supreme Court Justice. -
Orville Faubus
Was an American politician who served aa the govenor of Arkansas. -
Rosa Parks
Was an African-American Civil Rights Activist, was also named "The first lady of civil rights". -
Hector P. Garcia
WW11 Veteran and Civil RIghts Advocate Was a founder of teh American GI forum. -
Lester Maddox
Was a segregationist and a politican that later became the 75th governor of Georgia. -
George Wallace
Was the 45th govenor of Alabama and a segregationist. -
19th Amendment
Was an amendment to the constitution, saying that citizens cannot be denied from voting based on gender. Promoted equality -
Betty Friedan
Betty was an activitist and feminist. She was a leading figure in the womens movement and also wrote a book called "The feminine mytique". -
Cesar Chavez
Was a Civil Rights Activist, Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Was an African American Baptist Minister, activist, humanitarium, and leader of the African- American Civil rights Movement. -
20th Amendment
Describes when the president and congressmen, ends and begins his leadership. -
Federal Housing Authority
This sets standards for construction and underwriting and insures loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building. -
Desegregation
Was a large focus during the Civil RIghts Movement. A process in which two seperate races end up coming together. -
Brown v Board of Education
Brown, the plantiff believed that his children shouldn't have to commute so far just to go to an all colored school. He took this to court against the school board of education and it went all the way to the supreme court. The Court decided that it was unconstitutional to have segregated schools based on race. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a political and social protest compaign against segregation on buses. -
Civil Disobedience
The professed refusal of obeying civil laws or commands of a givernment. -
Civil Rights act of 1957
This led to the integration of public schools (Blacks and Whites being in the same school). -
Sit-ins
Non-violent sit-ins; protesting racial segregation. -
Non-violent Protest
Practice of civil disobedience without violence. -
Affirmative Action
Positive discrimination, a group that is favoring because it is disadvantadged. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
This Act outlawed the segragation of race, sex, religion and color when voting as well as public school for children. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment takes away the ablility of the states to create a poll tax or give a litteracy test based on race or segregation. -
Title IX
A federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any government funded education system. -
Upward Bound
A national program that more than doubles the chances of low-income students graduating from college so they can enter the middle class. -
Head Start
A program that provides an early on education for low income families and children. -
26th Amendment
Denies the states or governent the right to turnaway those 18 or older, who would like to vote.
