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Amendments
The first laws of america. -
14th Amendment
grants citizenship -
15th Amendment
grants voting rights -
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Eleanor Roosevelt
She was the longest holdeing first lady and a high profile suporter of the civil rights movement. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Pleesy was trialed for waiting in a white man train waiting area and was found guilty and segregation went in till the 1950's. -
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Thurgood Marshall
He was a courageous civil rights lawyer during the civil rights movement. -
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Hes been credited with being one of the most important civil rights figures in the US. -
NAACP
Nattional Association of the Advancment of Colored People a group to try to get coloreds equal rights. -
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Orval Faubus
Most known for his vigourus stand twards desegragaton. -
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Rosa Parks
Civil Rights activist also known as The First Lady of Civil Rights. She was jailed for refusing to get up for a white man on the bus. -
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Hector P. Garcia
He was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. -
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George Wallace
One of the countries leading figures againt the civil rights movement. -
19th Amendment
Gives woman right to vote -
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Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)
She wrote, "The Feminie Mystique". She was an avtive writter, femanist, and actavist, a big leader in the US's womans movement. -
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Cesar Chavez
An american farm worker, labor leader, and a civil rights a ctivist. -
League of United Latin American Citizens
LULAC, protested discrimination against latin americans -
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
A huge Civil Rights Movement leader nd gave the famous "I Have A Dream Speech"and preached nonviolent protest. -
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Dolores Huerta
Labor leader, and civil rights acctivist wh helo Ceaser Chavez found the National Farmworkers Association. -
Social Security
Help out people in need by giving them a chack every month f you are oldand can't work anymore. -
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Barbara Jordan
She was an American Poloticitan and a leader of the civil rights movement. -
Congress on Racial Equality
CORE, protested the nonviolent method of protest for the civil rights movement. -
Mendez v. Westminster
Segregation of mexicans and mexican american students was unconstitutional. -
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
Landmark case in texas that delt with racial segregation. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Case that successfuly changed the docterine of ractial segregation. -
Hernandez v. Texas
Landmark US supreme court case that said all racial groups were protected by the 14th amendment. -
Federal Housing Authority
Insured loans made my bankks and other private leader for home building and home buying. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Ruled that ractial segregation was unconstitutional. -
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice -
Militant Protests
Agressive or vigerous protest. -
Non-Violent Protests
Protesting with no violance -
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Civil Rights Movement
The movement of black or mexican people trying to get equal rights in America. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the arrest of Rosa PArks, all the colored people in that area vowed to not use the bus untill the segregation rlaws about buses were changed. -
Civil Rights Act 1957
was the first civil right slegislation for colored voting rights. -
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
UFWOC, was a group of farm workers that protested for workers rights in the fields. -
Great Society
medicare headstart and upward bound -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SNCC, one of the groups during the civil rights movement that participated in the sit-in protest. -
Affirmative Action
A method of redressing discrimination that had persisted in spite of civil rights movements happening. -
March on Washington
A march to try to give coloreds jobs and freedom that happened in Warshington D.C. -
24th Amendment
gets rid of poll taxes -
Civil Rights Act 1964
ending discrimination in the work place. -
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that were unfair to coloreds to make them unequal -
Upward Bound
response to the civil rights movement saying that no one wil be denied an education abd everyone has equalnoppertunity to do so. -
Medicare
Health insurance for retired americans. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Outlaw the discriminating voting practice of coloreds not being able to vote. -
National Organization for Women
NOW, fighting to get completly equal womans rights. -
Black Panther Party
An african american revolutionary sociolist rginazation that was part of the civil rights movement that used violence. -
25th Amednment
states the VP will take over when the prez dies -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC, African American civil rights group. -
American Indian Movement
Activist group in the US for American Indian rights. -
Tinker v. Des Moines,
the 1st amendment applies to public school with regards to regulating speech in the classroom. -
La Raza Unida (Mexican Americans United)
A group protesting for better work, housing, and educational oppertunities for mexiacn americans. -
26th Amendment
changed the voting age to 18 due to drafting in the millitary. -
Title IX
No sexual discrimination -
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby,
Landmark case in texas redistributed property taxes to poorer districs, led to Robin Hood legislation. -
Head Start
provides comprehinsive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvment services to low income children and their familes.
