The Civil Rights Movement sought to end racial discrimination through both legislative and judicial actions. Key events included the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments ending slavery and granting citizenship and voting rights to African Americans, and the Supreme Court cases Brown v. Board of Education declaring segregation unconstitutional. Notable figures who advocated for civil rights included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. President John F. Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act, while President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed it and the Voting Rights Act into law.

1. The Civil Rights Movement

2. Civil Rights: Rights of full citizenship and equality under the law.

3. Civil Rights Legislation

4. 13 th Amendment Abolished Slavery 14 th Amendment Guaranteed Equal Protection Under the Law 15 th Amendment Gave African-Americans the right to vote

7. Little Rock Nine were nine students who attended Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas despite violent protests.

8. Students were initially prevented from entering the formerly racially segregated school by the Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Finally, President Eisenhower ordered the Governor to allow the students to attend. The students had to be escorted by the Arkansas National Guard.

9. The students were spit on, called names, and threatened.

10. Some students refused to attend school with African Americans .

11. The students had to be escorted to school.

12. How difficult do you think it was to go to a school where you were hated and unwelcomed?

13. African-American protests were often broken up by violent force.

19. Civil Rights Vocabulary

20. Civil Disobedience : A peaceful way to object to a law considered unjust.

21. Sit-ins : Protests which involved African-Americans sitting at lunch counters and refusing to move until they had been served.

24. Marches : peaceful forms of protest in which African-Americans and sympathetic Caucasians marched together to show unity.

28. Segregation: Social separation of the races

31. Prejudice : Judging someone or having an idea about them before you actually know anything about them.

32. Discrimination : Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group.

33. Stereotype : to categorize individuals or groups according to an oversimplified standardized image or idea.

34. Racial profiling : being singled out as a suspect because of the way a person looks.

35. Hate crimes : acts of violence based on a person’s race, color, national origin, gender, or disability.

37. Tolerance : to respect others’ beliefs, practices, and differences without sharing them.

38. Discrimination

42. Segregation: Social separation of the races

43. Typical Africa-American school

44. Typical white school

45. Prejudice: Judging someone or having an idea about them before you actually know anything about them.

46. Discrimination : Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group.

47. Stereotype : to categorize individuals or groups according to an oversimplified standardized image or idea.

48. Racial profiling : being singled out as a suspect because of the way a person looks.

49. Hate crimes : acts of violence based on a person’s race, color, national origin, gender, or disability.

51. Tolerance: to respect others’ beliefs, practices, and differences without sharing them.