Civil Rights Staar Review 2025

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Rights of former slaves

Jim Crow

another name for segregation laws

Freedom Rides

end discrimination on interstate bussing

Plessy v Ferguson

"Separate but equal" is CONSTITUTIONAL

Civil Disobedience

Martin Luther Kings nonviolent protests

Black Panthers

Used arm patrols

Malcolm X

By Any Mean Necessary

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Sit-ins

Civil Rights Act 1957

enforced laws (legislation) prohibiting discrimination

Brown v Board of Education

Separate but Equal" is UNconstitutional in the field of public education

Orval Fabus ( governor of Arkansas)

Denied the Little Rock 9 entrance into the HS

15th Amendment

Strengthened with the Voting Rights Act 1965

Harry S Truman

Desegregated the military

March on Washington

Led to Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act 1964

Ended segregation

Chicano Movement

Helped migrant workers

Caesar Chavez and Dolorous Huerta

Created UFW - United Farm Workers

Economic Opportunity Act

Gave small business loans to help end poverty

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Ku Klux Klan

Prevented racial minorities from voting

UFW Boycott

grapes

NOW - National Organization for Women

Supported ERA - Equal Rights Amendment