Civil Rights pivotol moments

Vocabulary flashcards covering key civil rights legislation, constitutional amendments, court decisions, and related sociological terms.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Allowed federal officials to register voters in states where local officials practiced discrimination

Prejudice

To judge beforehand

Plessy v Ferguson

1896 Supreme Court case that established the "Separate but Equal" clause, allowing for state governments to create segregationist laws and policies, also known as "Jim Crow"

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Outlawed the poll tax

De facto segregation

Separation of groups that occurs by choice and/or tradition

Emancipation Proclamation

Freed slaves in all territories held by states in rebellion with the Union during the Civil War

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Forbade discrimination in housing based on race

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Forbade discrimination in public facilities, such as restaurants and parks, and in the use of federal funds

13th Amendment

Announced that there would be no slavery in any state of the United States

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Ruled that public schools must be desegregated with "all deliberate speed"

14th Amendment

Prohibits the states from denying rights and privileges of citizenship to any citizen; extended citizenship to blacks

Discrimination

To notice a difference and to treat differently

De jure segregation

Separation of groups by law or institution

Racism

The belief in racial superiority

15th Amendment

Declared that no person shall have the right to vote decided on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of being a slave