Civil Rights

1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled, separate but equal was inherently unequal in schools and therefore was unconstitutional

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Loving v. Virginia

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board

This is segregation that exists by practice and custom, not by law

• de facto segregation

• de jure segregation

Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Equal Rights Amendment

A form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination by occupying segregated businesses and refusing to leave until they are served.

• Sit-in

• March

• Boycott

• Freedom Ride

A rock music festival held in August of 1969

• Coachella

• Woodstock

• Lallapaloosa

• Glastonbury

A civil rights leader, head of the SCLC, and promoted non-violence and peaceful protest towards unjust laws. Later assassinated

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• John Lewis

• Cesar Chavez

Student activists that fought against segregation & other societal ills

• NAACP

• SNCC

• SCLC

• CORE

Tested Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate bus routes and facilities in bus terminals

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Freedom riders

• Nation of Islam

• Black Pathers

Recognized that the decision whether to continue or end a pregnancy belongs to the individual, not the government.

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board

• Roe v Wade

• Miranda v Arizona

Eliminated the literacy test and stated that federal examiners could enroll voters denied suffrage by local officials

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board