Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary
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Reconstruction Amendments
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After the Civil War in 1865, three amendments were
added to the US Constitution to protect newly freed
slaves’ rights. These were the 13th (FREE), 14th (CITIZENS),
and 15th (VOTE- all men) Amendments.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South after
the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Many argued that Jim
Crow Laws violated African American rights and the rights
guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
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Disfranchisement
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Preventing the right of suffrage (voting) of a person or
group of people, usually through voter intimidation, literacy
tests (elaborate voter registration procedure in Southern
states deliberately designed to deny the vote to nonwhites),
or poll taxes (pay to vote).
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Landmark 1896 Supreme Court case which ruled in favor of
legal segregation, using the term “separate but equal”
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled segregation
in public schools as unconstitutional. The Brown v. Board of
Education case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson case.
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Little Rock Nine
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Group of nine African American student enrolled at Little Rock
Central High School in 1957 but were prevented from entering the
racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of
Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of federal
troops sent by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up
her seat on a city bus, Rev. Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of
city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that
segregation of public transportation was illegal.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that finally ended
segregation in public places and banned employment
discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 is a federal law which prohibits racial
discrimination in voting, such as outlawing literacy tests
which were historically used to disenfranchise racial
minorities
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Title IX
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Federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in any
school or education program/activity receiving Federal
financial assistance (like sports)
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Chicano Mural Movement
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Started during the1960s in Mexican-American barrios
throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of
city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to
depict and support Mexican-American culture.
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