Civil Rights Movement

More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

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

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

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

Gave all male United States citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment