Civil Rights

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

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

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states to challenge segregation and Jim Crow laws.

• Freedom rides
• Selma March
• Sit –in
• Black Panthers

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

• 14th Amendment
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweat v Painter
• Plessy v. Ferguson

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

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point

• Civil Obedience 
• Civil Disobedience 
• Riots
• Angry protesting

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation).

• 13th Amendment
• Integration
• Affirmative Action
• Jim Crow Laws