Civil Rights Movement

required desegregation of schools; NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case; overturned legal segregation created by Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison
• Roe v. Wade
• Citizens United v. FEC
• Brown v. Board of Education

fought segregation through civil disobedience; bus sit-in led to year-long bus boycotts and inspired others

• Harriet Tubman
• Amelia Earhart
• Susan B. Anthony
• Rosa Parks

important leader of the civil rights movement; believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Rosa Parks
• Malcolm X

civil rights group that used armed resistance to protest and to defend themselves; Huey Newton

• Black Panthers

• White Panthers

• Black Bears

• Panthers Movement

Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the federal government to desegregate schools; President Eisenhower sent troops to enforce ruling

• University of Alabama

• Kent State Massacre

• Laurel, Mississippi

• Little Rock, Arkansas

non-violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities; resulted in new legislation

• March on Washington

• Juneteenth

• Industrial Revolution
• Revolutionary War

ended segregation and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• Equal Rights Amendment of 1972
• Minority Equality Decree of 1980
• Segregation Abolition Act of 1956
• Civil Rights Act of 1964

government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• government subsidies
• employment regulations
• Equal Employment Opportunity

• pro-discrimination laws

ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws; supported 15th Amendment–African American men could vote; resulted in increased voting by minorities

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 19th Amendment

• EOC Legislation

• Get Out the Vote Project