Reasons for Protest
Grandfather Clause
when you cannot vote if your grandfather couldn't vote.
When Africans Refused to ride buses until they were desegregated
Plessy V. Ferguson
A court case that legalized segregation as long as it was "separate but equal"
Title IX
Ended discrimination based on gender in schools funded by the federal government.
Cesar Chaves
Leader of the Latinx Movement
Literacy Test
A almost impossible to pass test African Americans had to take in order to register to vote.
Marches
When African Americans would plan marches to draw attention to issues they were protesting
Effects of the Freedom Summer of 1964
Increased literacy, increased voter registration, increased violence
The year the 19th Amendment was passed
1920
Yellow Peril
The idea that Asian immigrants posed a specific threat to American society that resulted in the abuse of Asian immigrants.
16th Street Baptist Church
A church in which the KKK set off a bomb and 4 little African American girls died
Sit Ins
African Americans refusing to leave a restaurant until they are served food.
Brown V. Board of Education
A court case that overturned Plessy V. Ferguson, and outlawed segregation in schools.
Equal Pay Act
Legislation designed to close the gender pay gap passed in the 60s
Chinese Exclusion Act
Stopped Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years.
What happened to the men who killed Emmet Till
They were acquitted and found not guilty.
Black panthers
A militant group that used self-defense tactics and violence in their protests.
Civil Rights of 1964
Outlawed Discrimination based on race, color, religion, and gender.
Wounded Knee
A Protest Staged by Russel Means and Dennis Banks against how Native Americans were being treated.
Prop 187
Laws that legalized the separation of African Americans and White Americans in public spaces.
Civil Disobedience
Peacefully resisting laws an individual feels is incorrect or unjust.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Federal officials could now register voters instead of local officials
Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968
Extended the rights in the Bill of Rights to Native Americans.
Korematsu V. United States
Ruled that the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps during WWII was legal.