Civil Rights

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Thurgood Marshall

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Gave all citizens born in the United States citizenship (rights of citizens); look for the amendments in your notebook!!!

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration
• discrimination
• DISTRACTION!
• segregation

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

What did Brown v. Board of Education decide?

• it segregated schools

• it desegregated schools

• it desegregated lunch counters

• it desegregated buses