The Civil Rights Movement
No Description
MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Civil Rights Movement
* The Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments *
What is a Civil Right?
- Guaranteed by Constitution
- Examples
- Voting, any Bill of Rights
13th and 14th Amendments
- 13th (1865): Outlawed Slavery
- 14th (1868): Ex-Slaves = Citizens
- Due Process and Equality for all in all states
Photo by kevinspencer
The 15th Amendment (1870)
- Race, Color, or Previous Condition of Servitude (Slave)
- Cannot be used to deny the right to Vote
Photo by Jim Surkamp
Disenfranchisement
- (Denial of the vote)
- Southern states used the following "legal" ways to deny African Americans the vote
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clause
Plessy v. Ferguson
Created Separate but "Equal" 1896
Brown v. Board of Education
Separate is not equal, Plessy overturned 1954
Freedom Summer
1964
