The Civil Rights Movement

1. The struggle for African Americans for social justice with the purpose of  gaining equal rights under the law in the United States.

• Civil War

• Equal Rights Amendment

• Civil Rights Movement

1. This Amendment gave people equal protection under the law.  

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

This war abolished slavery but didn’t end discrimination against African Americans.

• WWI

• The American Revolution

• The Civil War

1. This Amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote.

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

1. Laws made in the South to keep African Americans separate from white people and erase any progress made during Reconstruction. 

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Fugitive Slave Laws

1. The Supreme Court case that declared that facilities for Black and White people could be “separate but equal”. 

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Johnson v. Texas

1. They became the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps.  

• The Cleveland Rockets

• The Tuskegee Airmen

• The Fighting 446

1.  Issued by President Roosevelt on June 25, 1941 it opened up national jobs and other government jobs to all Americans regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.

• Civil Rights Act of 1941

• 16th Amendment

• Executive Order 8802

1. He issued Executive Order 9981 with the purpose of ending discrimination in the military.

• Harry S. Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, unwittingly becoming the mother of  the Civil Rights Movement. 

• Harriet Tubman

• Maya Angelou

• Rosa Parks