Term
|
Definition
| Denied citizenship to African Americans. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1868
States cannot discriminate. Equal protection under the law. Due process of law extended to all. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Group of activists who rode on buses from Washington D.C. to New Orleans (becoming interstate commerce) to test Boynton v. Virginia. They were attacked in Birmingham by the KKK. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1960
Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A hate group who tormented, tortured, and killed many African Americans during the Civil Rights movement. They still exist today. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Refused to give up her seat at the front of a bus. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| One of the biggest leaders of the movement. He is an American icon, delivered the "I have a dream" speech. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A peaceful tool used by the activists to demonstrate their right to be served at restaurants. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The first African American on the Supreme Court. He was also the lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Cruel set of rules and regulations enforced, often through violence, heavily in the South. They imposed restrictions on voting through poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1896
Established "separate but equal." Constitutionally upheld segregation. |
|
|
Term
| Brown v. Board of Education |
|
Definition
1954
Struck down "separate but equal." Court bans segregation in public schools. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Monroe Elementary School in this town is the school which was first desegregated, and the reason for the Brown v. Board of Education case. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The judge who ruled in the case Brown v. Board of Education. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A group of students who were barred from entering school after the desegregation law. President Eisenhower intervened in order to insure their safety. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The courts step up to pass laws Congress won't. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Congress steps up to pass laws the courts won't. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Outlawing discrimination based on (1)race, (2)religion, (3)national origin, and, later(4)gender.
The Act applies to (1)firms with more than 25 employees, (2)public accommodations, (3)any program or astivity receiving federal funds. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1982
Outlawing of electoral systems of discrimination. Creation of Black Majority districts. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Rights of victims of discrimination to sue. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| From the civil rights movement in the 1960s, included employment, quotas, and university admissions benefits for minorities. |
|
|
Term
| Regents of University of California v. Bakke |
|
Definition
1978
White applicant denied admission to medical school because 16 slots were reserved to minorities. The court ordered that he be admitted, but deemed that race can still be a consideration for admissions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1978
Instruction in the native language in public schools |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1986
Granting legal status to aliens arriving to U.S. prior to 1982.
Punishment for hiring illegal aliens. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Women's Rights convention - plead for the right to vote, education, and employment equality. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The rights bill that was never ratified. |
|
|
Term
| Discrimination Act of 1978 |
|
Definition
| An employer cannot refuse to hire or promote a woman because she's pregnant. |
|
|
Term
| Civil Rights & Women's Equity and Employment Act |
|
Definition
1991
Damage awards for discrimination - but must prove case. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
1978
No homosexual discrimination in hiring. The military implemented the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prohibits the establishment of a church officially supported by the national government. |
|
|
