Civil Rights 2 Flashcards
US v Cruikshank
violators of African American civil rights can go unpunished
US v Reese
States can impose literacy tests or poll taxes to prevent African Americans from voting
Civil Rights Cases
Hotels, restaurants, and other business owners are free to discriminate
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896: segregation of races in public accommodations are legal
“separate but equal”
black codes
laws passed by Southern states that limited the freedoms of former slaves
13th Amendment
banned slavery
14th Amendment
gave equal rights and protection under the law to anyone born in the US as a citizen
15th Amendment
gave the right to vote to African Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
all people born in the US (except Native Americans) are citizens; all citizens entitled to equal rights regardless of race
Jim Crow Laws
laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the South
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
a civil rights organization
imposed to prevent African Americans from voting
literacy tests and poll taxes
when was Brown v. Board of Education?
1954
NAACP attorney for Brown
Thurgood Marshall
seven-year-old student in Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown
Chief Justice of US Supreme Court during Brown v. Board of Education
Earl Warren
Brown v. Board of Education: What?
Brown family sued school board since Linda Brown was denied enrollment to neighborhood school
Decision of Brown v. Board of Education
“separate but equal” is not equal in schools
integration of schools, but not private businesses
Brown v. Board overturned which Supreme Court case?
Plessy v. Ferguson