Leaders
Started an early Civil Rights group for African Americans in 1909 called the NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois
Supreme Court Case from the late 1800s that determined "separate but equal" was allowed in schools and public places.
March on Washington of 1963
Supreme Court Case that ensures that citizens under arrest are aware of their 5th amendment rights.
Miranda v. Arizona
Group created to advocate for women's rights in health care, education, and jobs
National Organization for Women
Woman who refused to stand on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and started a boycott of buses that lasted for more than a year
Rosa Parks
Passed by President Truman to desegregate the U.S. military.
Executive Order 9981
Group that advocated for civil rights by all necessary means to defend the black community and provide for the community needs. This could include armed (weapons) resistance if necessary.
Black Panther Party
Labor Union created by Cesar Chavez to support farm workers rights to fair wages, safe working conditions, and safe health conditions.
United Farm Workers
March to Washington D.C. to demand land, water, environment, and employment rights for Native Americans living on reservations and in the U.S.
Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972
Lawyer that won the Brown v. Board of Education case to desegregate U.S. schools. Later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
President that used an executive order to send U.S. Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to ensure that the school was integrated for the Little Rock Nine.
President Eisenhower
The decision of this Supreme Court case demanded that all U.S. schools be desegregated because they were proven to be unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Organization that supports Latino work and civil rights in the U.S.
LULAC
Amendment that did NOT pass, but the goal was to ensure equal treatment and rights for both men an women in the United States.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Law that prohibited the segregation of all public places, businesses, schools, and government buildings.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Protest designed to fight against segregated buses that traveled between states and within states in the south
Freedom Rides, 1961
These items were boycotted by Latino Farm workers during under the leadership of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.
Grapes and lettuce
Law passed to ensure that women are given equal opportunity in sports and athletics in public schools
Title IX
Muslim civil rights leader that supported armed protest and developing programs for breakfast and education in black communities in the United States.
Malcolm X
Law passed to ensure that African Americans could use their 15th Amendment Rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Forms of non-violent protest used in the south to fight against segregation
Sit-ins, boycotts, marches, rallies in community centers.
Leader of the Chicano and Latino Farmers Rights movement who was highly educated and negotiated with the government to provide wages, health care, and safety for farm workers.
Dolores Huerta
Takeover of previous Native American lands to advocated for rights for the Oglala and Sioux Tribes in South Dakota. Eventually the U.S. negotiated to support this tribe more.
Occupation of Wounded Knee