Civil Rights

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

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

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

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

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

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.

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?

• march
• boycott
• sit in
• activist

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal