Civil Rights Movement

This Amendment outlawed slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment made African Americans citizens guaranteed equal protection under the law -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws created after Reconstruction to enforce segragation in public places -

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Pigeon Laws

• KKK Code

U.S. Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the U.S. - created the "seperate but equal" principle.

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Hernanadez V. Texas

• Miranda V. Arizona

Taking a case to court -

• lobbying

• litigation

• referendum

• recall

Removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting -

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Voting Rights Act of 1865

• Votings Rights Act of 1982

Activists arrested for sit-ins were encouraged to stay in jail and not seek bail in order to draw attention to injustices.

• True

• False

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez