Civil Rights

Keeps minorities powerless by formally separating them from the dominant group and depriving them of access to the dominant institutions

• Segregation
• Desegrregation
• Civil rights
• Cold War

When was Martin Luther King assassinated?

• 1968
• 1963
• 1974
• 1989

An association founded in 1909 by W.E.B Dubois that was formed to help blacks gain equal rights socially and politically.

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
• White Citizens' Council
• Ku Klux Klan

The 19th Amendment (1920)

• gave women the right to vote
• gave only white women the right to vote
• stopped women from voting
• allows 18-year-olds to vote

13th amendment

• Banned slavery (1865)
• Allowed slavery (1812)
• Gave blacks the right to vote (1866)
• Gave blacks citizenship (1870)

Gave blacks citizenship and equal rights

• 14th Amendment (1868)
• 13th Amendment (1865)
• 15th Amendment (1870)
• 16th Amendment (1912)

Gave black men the right to vote

• 15th Amendment (1870)
• 19th Amendment (1920)
• 26th Amendment (1971)
• 13th Amendment (1865)

First African American to serve on the Supreme Court (1967-1991)

• Thurgood Marshall
• Martin Luther King
• Clarence Thomas
• Strom Thurmond

Martin Luther King's group

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Congress of Racial Equality
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Black Panthers

The biggest Hispanic civil rights group

• League of United Latin American Citizens
• La Raza Unida
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• United Farmworkers Committee