Landmark Cases
This 1896 case established the 'separate but equal' doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1964 law outlawed discrimination in public places, employment, and education.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
She co-founded the United Farm Workers and championed farmworker rights.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
These local laws and intimidation tactics enforced racial segregation and suppressed Black voting after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws (and KKK intimidation)?
Two anti-poverty programs that provided job training and early childhood education.
What are Job Corps and Head Start?
This 1950 case challenged the equality of separate professional schools and helped set precedent for Brown.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
This 1965 law banned literacy tests and provided federal oversight of voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
He was a key SNCC leader and took prominent part in Selma marches.
Who is John Lewis?
his tactic—used as a barrier to voting—included reading or understanding requirements and monetary fees.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
LBJ's broader effort to reduce poverty and racial injustice was called this.
What is the War on Poverty (part of the Great Society)?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This constitutional amendment (1870) aimed to grant African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This organization focused on armed self-defense, Black nationalism, and community programs like Free Breakfast.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This 1963 event featured MLK's famous speech and raised national attention for civil rights.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1964 act aimed to improve employment opportunities and fight poverty.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?
This 1954 case extended 14th Amendment protections to Mexican Americans and ruled against jury exclusion.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
This set of domestic programs launched by LBJ sought to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
What is the Great Society?
This group advocated for women's equality and the ERA in the 1960s and beyond.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This 1964 voter registration campaign aimed to register Black voters in Mississippi.
What is Freedom Summer?
These programs aimed to increase earning potential through training, education, and healthcare supports.
What are Great Society anti-poverty programs (e.g., Job Corps, Head Start, Medicare/Medicaid)?
This case demonstrated that separate facilities for professional education were inherently unequal."
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
This policy approach aims to redress past discrimination by increasing opportunities for minorities and women.
What is affirmative action?
This cultural movement used public murals to promote Chicano identity and political messages.
What is the Chicano Mural Movement?
These 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery highlighted voter suppression and pressured Congress.
What are the Selma to Montgomery marches?
Explain how economic programs complemented legal civil rights victories by addressing the financial roots of inequality.
What is connecting War on Poverty programs to civil rights legal gains?