Civil Rights Vocab Days 1 and 2

Outlaws Slavery

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 16th Amendment

Gives citizens equal protection under the law

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 16th Amendment

Citizens can vote regardless of race or skin color 

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 16th Amendment

Created laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern U.S. 

• Segregation Codes
• The Black Codex
• Plessy v Ferguson
• Jim Crow Laws

Supreme Court case making segregation legal as long as it is "separate but equal"

• Plessy v Ferguson (1898)
• Tinker v Des Moines (1971)
• Dredd Scott v Sanford (1857)
• U.S. v Georgia (1830)

First African American in Major League Baseball, Rookie of the Year 1947

• Hank Aaron
• Hank Aaron Jr.
• James Baldwin
• Jackie Robinson

Refusing to buy things or participate at something

• Refuting
• Boycott
• Protesting
• Sales Killing

Breaking a law you feel is unjust to bring attention to a problem

• Protesting
• Civil Disobedience
• Litigation
• Dodging 

President Truman did this which helped the Civil Rights Movement.

• Passed a voting rights bill
• Passed a civil rights bill
• Desegregated (ended segregation in)  the Armed Forces
• Appointed the first black cabinet members in the White House

The name of the Amendments passed to give African Americans rights after the Civil War.

• The Black Amedments
• The New Freedoms
• The Reconstruction Amendments
• The U.S. Black Codes