Civil Rights Section
de facto segregation - the ideas of segregation existing as an underlying rule but not set in place everywhere in the United States.
Thurgood Marshall - an American lawyer who led and representative for the NAACP in the Brown vs. Board of Education case and would later become a Supreme Court justice.
Compliance - an ordinance or law issued which must be followed through or consequences would be dealt.
Civil Rights Act of 1957 - first investigation since the days of Reconstruction into the voting rights being taken away or unfair treatment toward minorities.
Rosa Parks - a civil rights activist who refused the law of segregation by not taking a seat in the back but instead the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her continued legacy is the improvement in education, job creation, and civilian skills for people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - he spoke as a voice for African Americans and used inspirational speeches, preaching the practices of timely protests with purposes for non-conflict expressing the tiredness of segregation and oppression.
Sit In - taking action by occupying a place of business which disrupts the work flow or brings attention without the intention of any harm.
Freedom Ride - a journey across the South, which took action as a statement by purposely going against the identified "non colored" segregated public facilities.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ended the segregation within public businesses and education, while enforcing legal action against any person violating any discrimination based upon someone of color, sex, or where the individual comes from.
Confrontation - the point in which a heated argument or fighting escalates between opposites viewpoints on a certain stance.
Voting Rights Act - the federal government enforced registration voting by outlawing the use of literacy tests that were still used against minorities.
Twenty Fourth Amendment - another measure eliminating the poll tax towards voting which gave poor African Americans their 15th amendment right.
Malcolm X - an African American radical who urged urban movements through statements and movements through vocalized means distant from nonviolent and integrated actions.
Black Power - the belief that an African-Americans power should not be secondary in a white society and would not be accepted or tolerated in American society.
Black Panthers - individuals spoke out or took a stance against violence involving law enforcement and political issues which were aimed towards the destruction of urban African American communities.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - an organization ensuring the constitutional rights of African Americans, while standing up against any form of racism where segregation and actions of discrimination affect the living, working, learning, and decision making areas of life.
(de)segregation - breaking up of a solitary individual or group which is separated by an enforced rule of law.
Boycott - an action of disapproval or refusal when it comes to a situation or action which is forced upon in society.
Civil Disobedience - taking a stand with the approach of nonviolent measures towards any threat of order and force by any form of government.
Non-violent Resistance - a combative form of protest that does not cooperate with the government and the intentions are not hostile.
de facto segregation - the ideas of segregation existing as an underlying rule but not set in place everywhere in the United States.
Thurgood Marshall - an American lawyer who led and representative for the NAACP in the Brown vs. Board of Education case and would later become a Supreme Court justice.
Compliance - an ordinance or law issued which must be followed through or consequences would be dealt.
Civil Rights Act of 1957 - first investigation since the days of Reconstruction into the voting rights being taken away or unfair treatment toward minorities.
Rosa Parks - a civil rights activist who refused the law of segregation by not taking a seat in the back but instead the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her continued legacy is the improvement in education, job creation, and civilian skills for people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - he spoke as a voice for African Americans and used inspirational speeches, preaching the practices of timely protests with purposes for non-conflict expressing the tiredness of segregation and oppression.
Sit In - taking action by occupying a place of business which disrupts the work flow or brings attention without the intention of any harm.
Freedom Ride - a journey across the South, which took action as a statement by purposely going against the identified "non colored" segregated public facilities.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ended the segregation within public businesses and education, while enforcing legal action against any person violating any discrimination based upon someone of color, sex, or where the individual comes from.
Confrontation - the point in which a heated argument or fighting escalates between opposites viewpoints on a certain stance.
Voting Rights Act - the federal government enforced registration voting by outlawing the use of literacy tests that were still used against minorities.
Twenty Fourth Amendment - another measure eliminating the poll tax towards voting which gave poor African Americans their 15th amendment right.
Malcolm X - an African American radical who urged urban movements through statements and movements through vocalized means distant from nonviolent and integrated actions.
Black Power - the belief that an African-Americans power should not be secondary in a white society and would not be accepted or tolerated in American society.
Black Panthers - individuals spoke out or took a stance against violence involving law enforcement and political issues which were aimed towards the destruction of urban African American communities.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - an organization ensuring the constitutional rights of African Americans, while standing up against any form of racism where segregation and actions of discrimination affect the living, working, learning, and decision making areas of life.
(de)segregation - breaking up of a solitary individual or group which is separated by an enforced rule of law.
Boycott - an action of disapproval or refusal when it comes to a situation or action which is forced upon in society.
Civil Disobedience - taking a stand with the approach of nonviolent measures towards any threat of order and force by any form of government.
Non-violent Resistance - a combative form of protest that does not cooperate with the government and the intentions are not hostile.