Civil Rights Movement

Ended legal public school segregation.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

This act ended voter suppression tactics like literacy tests and grandfather clauses

• 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

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

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• pay people based on experience and years of service

• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Kneily Stewart

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lester Maddox

Forcing people to pay for the right to vote was called a _________?

• Literacy Test
• Poll Tax

The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for African-Americans living in the south to exercise their right to vote    

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965