Unit 2 trivia

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Protects people from discrimination (sex, race, nationality, religion), has 11 titles.

Title 1

Voting Rules and registration

Title ll (2)

Public businesses (restaurants, hotels, theaters)

Title lll (3)

Public facilities(libraries, parks, pools)

Title lV (4)

Public schools

Title V (5)

Investigate CRA violations

Title Vl (6)

Federally Funded agencies

Title Vll (7)

Places of employment

Title Vlll (8)

Voting data must be recorded

Title lX (9)

Civil rights cases go to federal courts

Title X (10)

Agencies to assist with disputes

Title Xl (11)

Penalities for CRA violations

Dred Scott decision/Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Dred Scott was a black man who fought for his right to be free, court ruled that all African descent free or enslaved were not citizens thus not having rights

13th amendment

abolished slavery

14th amendment

Gave citizenship to all people born in the U.S and required states to treat all citizens equally

15th amendment

Established that voting can not be denied based on race

 Citizenship Clause

It says anyone born in the U.S. or born in any place under U.S. jurisdiction, or legal control, is a citizen. It is part of the 14th amendment.

The 14th Amendment overruled a decision by this Court

Scott V Sandford

When an immigrant completes the legal steps to become a citizen, they are

naturalized

Equal Protection clause

Monitors the behavior of state and local governments. It prevents them from passing laws that treat people unfairly.

Black codes

Laws that limited the freedom of black people

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Plessy purposely broke the separate car act to protest against the racist law. He argued the 14th amendment equal protection clause should have protected him. Ruled segregation was legal as long as public facitlies were separate but equal.

Brown v Board of education

Ended School segregation; said separate, but equal was uncontutional

Hernadez v Texas

Applied the 14th amendment to all races; said people of color are entitled to juries of their peers

Loving V Virginia

Allowed interracial marriages

Mills v Board of education

Required public schools to accept disabled students

U.S V Virginia

Let women attend an all men military academy

Obergefell v Hodges

Allowed marraige for LGBT people

Louisiana Separate Car Act

The law required Black train passengers to sit apart from White passengers.

Little Rock Nine

Integrated their all white highschool in 1957.

Medgar Evers

A civil rights activist who investigated cases for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) and helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi.

Malcolm X

Promoted black independence, self-defense, and human rights. He often disagreed with the non-violent methods of King.

Marches

Involved large groups of protesters taking to the streets with signs, banners, songs, and chants.

Sit-ins

Were a way to integrate (bring the races together) a business or public area. African Americans would sit at ‘whites only’ areas and wait to be served.

24th Amendment

Ended poll tax, state and local government could not charge for right citizens for the right to vote

 Voting Rights Act of 1965

prohibits any restriction on the right to vote. This included poll tests and voter intimidation. It followed through on the promise of the 15th Amendment.

Bailey v. Patterson

In 1962, the Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for transportation facilities like bus and train stations to be racially segregated.

Rosa Parks

I started the Montgomery Bus Boycott when I refused to give up my seat to a white man who got on the bus. I was the secretary of the local NAACP.

Thurgood Marshall

I argued before the Supreme Court for the Brown family in Education. Brown v. Board of Years later I became the first African American Supreme Court justice.

Lyndon B. Johnson

As the president of the United States, I signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law.

SNCC

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

CORE

Congress on Racial Equality

SCLC

Southern ChristianLeadership Conference 

NAACP

National Association for the Advancementof Colored People 

COFO

Council of Federated Organizations (combination of the groups above)