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Socially Progressive Movements: Civil Rights

  • Amendment

    Amendment

    An amendment is a formal change to the text of the written constitution of a nation or state.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    The 14th Amendment Grants citizenship to all people born in the US
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The 15th Amendment grants voting rights to African American men
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson is a United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

    The NAACP offers assistance to African Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment establishes women's suffrage
  • League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

    League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

    The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Offers assistance to Hispanic Americans with regards to matters involving civil rights.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. Eleanor became an important connection for Franklin's administration to the African-Americans during the segregation era.
  • Federal Housing Authority

    Federal Housing Authority

    The feseral housing authority is a United States government agency that insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
  • Social Security

    Social Security

    Social Security is the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) federal program. Social Security pays for ones retirment.
  • The Congress of Racial Equality

    The Congress of Racial Equality

    The Congress of Racial Equality or CORE is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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    Socially Progressive Movement: Civil Rights

  • Mendez v. Westminster

    Mendez v. Westminster

    Meendez v. Westminster was a 1946 federal court case that challenged racial segregation in California schools. The court decided that segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional.
  • Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

    Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

    the court decided that the segregation of Mexican-American children was illegal.
  • Hector P. Garcia

    Hector P. Garcia

    Hector Perez Garcia was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate. in 1948 Hector invited veterans to come hear him and other local leaders discuss the problems of segregated schools in Taft, Texas
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement

    The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law
  • Sweatt v. Painter

    Sweatt v. Painter

    Sweatt v. Painterbwas a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist. Chavez became the best known Latino American civil rights activist.
  • Dolores Huerta

    Dolores Huerta

    Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist. she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers
  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Hernandez v. Texas

    Hernandez v. Texas wasva United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

    Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr

    Martin Luther King, Jr

    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent tactics
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She is famous for not giving up her seat on the bus and then she got arrested.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest against the racial segregation on the public transit system
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    SCLC is an African-American civil rights organization. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
  • Orval Faubus

    Orval Faubus

    Orval Faubus was the 36th Governor of Arkansas. He is best known for his stand against the desegregation of the Little Rock School District.
  • Civil Rights Act 1957

    Civil Rights Act 1957

    primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement
  • Non-Violent Protests

    Non-Violent Protests

    Non-Violent Protests are protest that when violence approches they don't fight back
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    Affirmative action are policies that take factors like race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origins into consideration in order to benefit groups in areas of employment, education, and business.
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace

    George Corley Wallace was an American politician and the 45th governor of Alabama.
  • Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan was an American writer, activist, and feminist. Betty wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963 and it is credited for sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    The March on Washington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson

    Lyndon Baines Johnson

    Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    The 24th Amendment was passed to prevent voting discrimination against the poor by outlawing poll taxes
  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Civil Rights Act 1964

    piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.
  • Great Society

    Great Society

    The Great Society was a set of programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
  • Head Start

    Head Start

    The Head Start Program is a program of the United States that provides education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low income families.
  • Medicare

    Medicare

    Medicare is a national social insurance program that guarantees health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older
  • Voting Rights Act 1965

    Voting Rights Act 1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
  • Upward Bound

    Upward Bound

    Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program in the United States.
  • Barbara Jordan

    Barbara Jordan

    Barbara Jordan the first African American elected to the Texas Senate and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and other rewards
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)

    National Organization for Women (NOW)

    NOW is an organization for the advancement of women
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws are laws that make it legal to segragate a certain group because of race
  • United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

    United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

    The United Farm Workers of America is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the National Farm Workers Association.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    The Black Panthers was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization
  • 25th Amendment

    25th Amendment

    Codifies the Tyler Precedent; defines the process of presidential succession
  • Thurgood Marshal

    Thurgood Marshal

    Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was the first african american justice.
  • Militant Protests

    Militant Protests

    Militant protest are protests that when violence approches, they fight back.
  • American Indian Movement

    American Indian Movement

    The American Indian Movement is a Native American activist organization in the United States
  • Tinker v. De Moines

    Tinker v. De Moines

    Tinker v. Des Moines was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools
  • La Raza Unida (Mexican Americans United)

    La Raza Unida (Mexican Americans United)

    La Raza Unida (Mexican Americans United) was an American political party centered on Chicano nationalism.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    The 26th Amendment establishes the right to vote at the age of 18 years or older.
  • Title IX

    Title IX

    Title IX is a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972. It states "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance..."
  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the first hispanic judge.
  • Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

    Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

    Edgewood ISD v. Kirby case concerning public school finance. the state's methods of funding public schools violated at least four principles of the state constitution, which obligated the state legislature to provide an efficient and free public school system.