Civil Rights

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

A case in which the Court held that the 14th Amendment prohibited the University of Texas from rejecting applicants soley on the basis of race -

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

AIM - organization founded in Minnesota for Native Americans

• American Irish Movement

• Indian American Movement

• American Native Movement

• American Indian Movement

Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy to end poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment -

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The Great Society

• Equal Pay Act

• Title IX

active effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for members of minority groups and for women

• HUD

• Equal Pay Act

• Affirmative Action

• Title IX

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