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Black Power

sadu4273 — 2024-04-30 18:08:27 UTC

It emphasized racial pride , economic empowerment and the creation of political and cultural insitutions.

Selma

sadu4273 — 2024-04-30 18:15:28 UTC

Its to ensure that African American could exercise their constitutional right to vote

Martin Luther King Jr

sadu4273 — 2024-04-30 18:19:06 UTC

he organized a number of marches and protest and was a key figure in American civil rights movements

Rosa Parks

sadu4273 — 2024-04-30 18:39:34 UTC

she refuesed to give up her seat to a white man in Alabama

Freedom Summer

sadu4273 — 2024-04-30 18:49:06 UTC

Jim Crow Laws

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:44:18 UTC

the Jim Crow laws were local laws introduced in the southern late 19s and 20s that enforced racial segregation

black codes

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:46:41 UTC

they restricted blacks to have right to own a property, buy and lease land and move freely through Public spaces

13th amendment

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:48:23 UTC

13th amendment to the united states constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted

14th Amendment

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:50:10 UTC

14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States which granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people

15th amendment

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:50:47 UTC

It grants the right to vote for all male citizens regardless of their ethnicity or prior slave status.

KKK

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:52:58 UTC

was a group of white supremacist racist againt those former slaves nor workers

plessy v furgerson

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:54:29 UTC

was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court

De facto Segregation

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:55:43 UTC

De facto segregation was a term used during the 1960s racial integration efforts in schools, to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race

brown vs board

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:56:34 UTC

the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional

litle rock 9

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 15:58:57 UTC

Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School they did not make it through the first day becuase of all the hatred

Emmet till

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:00:54 UTC

Till was accused of flirting with, touching, or whistling at Bryant. Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the unwritten code of behavior for a black male interacting with a white female in the Jim Crow era

montgomery bus boycott

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:02:00 UTC

Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional

civil disobendience

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:03:07 UTC

The practice of civil disobedience is most commonly associated with the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s in the african amercians

sit-ins

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:04:41 UTC

African Americans usually students would go to segregated lunch counters sit in all available spaces get food and drinks and then refuse to leave when denied service because of their race

freedom riders

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:06:01 UTC

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961

march on washington

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:09:08 UTC

on aug 28 1963 a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice

civil rights act of 1964

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:19:59 UTC

this right prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

Voting Right Act

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:21:21 UTC

It helped alot with strengthening the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools

Malcolm X

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:22:44 UTC

one of the most significant figures within the American Black nationalist movement. Many of the ideas he articulated, like race pride and self-defense, became ideological

black panthers

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:23:58 UTC

the party created social programs, including the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, education programs, and community health clinics. The Black Panther Party advocated for class struggle, claiming to represent the proletarian vanguard.

cesar chavez

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:30:04 UTC

Cesario Estrada Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist and fought for what he thought was right

united farm workers

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:31:43 UTC

they engaged in civil disobedience, mobilized support from churches andstudents, boycotted growers, and transformed itself into La Causa

A.I.M

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:33:29 UTC

began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting called by a group of Native American community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt.

feminism

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:35:31 UTC

l feminism can be seen as a movement to put an end to sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression and to achieve full gender equality in law and in practice.

N.O.W and the E.R.A

sadu4273 — 2024-05-01 16:38:21 UTC

NOW's purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968