CIVIL RIGHTS VOCABULARY6 Steps to learning new vocabulary

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Definitions

Your vocabulary will be introduced with definitions – please write the definition in YOUR OWN words and draw a PICTURE that helps explain the vocabulary word…

14th (XIV) Amendment

Grants citizenship to all people born in the U.S. (giving former slaves citizenship).

15th (XV)Amendment

Granted slaves and African-Americans the right to vote.

Brown v. Board of Education

A unanimous Supreme Court ruling in 1954 declaring that separate schools based on race was unconstitutional. 

It overturned the ruling Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Civil Rights Act 1957

An ineffective legislative act often forgotten and looked over, however it was the first piece of civil rights legislation since Reconstruction…

Civil Rights Act 1964

Landmark legislation outlawing segregation in public places, employment, and schools by anyone; or discrimination against women

Freedom Riders

Civil Rights activists who rode buses into the Deep South to test newly created desegregated transportation laws. Riders were both black and white.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

36th President of the U.S. who signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a nd the Voting Rights Act of 1965

John Fitzgerald Kennedy-

35th President of the U.S. who ordered federal marshals to protect Freedom Riders, and African American students who enrolled in the University of Alabama

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights leader from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and the SCLC.

Little Rock Nine

Nine African American students who tried to attend Little Rock Central High School in 1957, but were blocked by the Governor of Arkansas, and later helped by President Eisenhower.

lynching

Illegal execution of a person found guilty and punished by a mob.

NAACP

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People): Civil Rights organization founded on the principle that all men and women are created equal.

Rosa Parks

African American woman arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man during the time of segregated bus seating. 1954 She became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896 Supreme Court case which ruled that the doctrine “Separate but Equal” was constitutional, allowing for legal segregation

SCLC

(Southern Christian Leadership Conference): Civil Rights organization founded on the principle of non-violent protests, and led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dred Scott

A former slave who sued for his freedom but lost in the Supreme Court 1854.

segregation

The separation of different racial or ethnic groups in daily life.

Sit-ins

A form of non-violent protest by members of SNCC. Students would sit at lunch counters for whites only and refuse to leave, often enduring racial slurs and violence.

SNCC

(Students Non-Violent Co-coordinating Committee): A non-violent protest organization organized by students and run by students.

Voting Rights Act 1965

Ensured that every citizen of the country is allowed to vote and outlawed any discriminatory voting practices. Poll taxes, literacy tests…

Malcolm X

An African American leader during the Civil Rights movement who took a more radical approach to protests than Martin Luther King Jr.

After a journey to Mecca (Muslims’ Holy City) he has a change of heart but he is assassinated by The Nation of Islam his former group

The End

Make sure you used your own words in the definitions and that you drew some picture representation of the word.

History is Fun!!! Later this week we will plan games with these words!