Civil Rights Movement

This amendment freed the slaves

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 19

This amendment gave all former slaves citizenship

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

This individual believed in forgiveness and using peaceful protest to win civil rights

• Malcolm X

• MLK

• JFK

• Rosa Parks

This supreme court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was Equal

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Tinker vs Des Moins

• Grant vs Hartley

• Brown vs Board of Education

These were test that claimed to measure intelligence but were used to discriminate against Black voters

• Poll Taxes

• Bus Boycott

• Literacy Tests

When you had to pay money in order to vote. Outlawed by the 24th amendment.

• Literacy Tests

• Poll taxes

• Lynchings

This Supreme court case ruled that segregated schools violated the "Equal Protection clause" of the 14th amendment.

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Tinker vs Des Moins

To break a law peacefully as a form of political Protest.

• Civil Disobedience

• Rioting

• Literacy Test.

This law outlawed discrimination in public places, services, and employment.

• Civil Rights Act

• Literacy Tests

• Civil Disobedience.

• Brown vs Board

The policy of "separate but equal" was used to

• increase the number of political parties.

• justify the practice of legal racial segregation.

• prevent the passage of unfair laws.

• halt the creation of independent school districts.