Civil Rights Movement and Women's Rights

These flashcards provide key terms and definitions from the lecture on the civil rights movement and women's rights, aimed at aiding in exam preparation.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Legislation that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to promote civil rights through nonviolent protest.

Nonviolent resistance

A method of protest that seeks change without using violence.

Media coverage

The reporting of events by news agencies which can influence public opinion and policy.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Landmark legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Eighteenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol.

Nineteenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, ratified in 1920.

Title IX

A federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or educational program that receives federal funding.

Intersectional theory

The study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and how these intersecting identities relate to systems of oppression.

Glass ceiling

A metaphorical barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications.

Sodomy law

Laws that criminalize certain sexual acts, historically targeting homosexual behavior.

Partial birth abortion

A term often used to describe specific abortion procedures that take place in the later stages of pregnancy and have been the subject of legal and political debate.

Equal Rights Amendment

A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex.

Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1974

Legislation focused on preventing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Civil Rights movement

A decades-long movement aimed at ending racial discrimination and securing legal rights for African Americans in the United States.

Women's suffrage

The movement to grant women the right to vote, culminating in the Nineteenth Amendment.