History Civil Rights

Plessy VS Ferguson

The ruling in this Supreme Court case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."

Voting rights act of 1965

It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

Rasism

the belief that races are not equal

Civil rights act of 1964

prohibited discrimination in public places

15th amendment

voting cannot be denied based on race

prejudice

to judge before

discrimination

to notice a difference and treat differently

de jure segregation

the legal or governmental enforcement of separation between groups of people

civil rights act of 1968

prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing

brown vs board of education

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

emancipation proclamation

ended slavery in the south during civil war

de facto segregation 

the separation of racial or other groups that occurs not by law, but as a result of social, economic, and residential patterns

14th amendment

granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and prohibited states from denying any person life, liberty, or property

24th amendment

outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections

13th amendment

abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States