Civil Rights Act
Landmark antidiscrimination law
The Civil Rights Act refers to several landmark U.S. federal laws prohibiting discrimination, most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
That act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment, public accommodations, and federally funded programs.
The Civil Rights Act transformed American society.
Earlier acts (1866, 1875) addressed post-slavery rights; later ones (1968, 1991) expanded protections.
Landmark desegregation decision
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- Loving v. VirginiaCase legalizing interracial marriage
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
- class actionLawsuit filed for many
Combining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
- fair housingAntidiscrimination laws for rentals
equal employment · affirmative action · inclusivity · nondiscrimination · equal access · school integration · busing · open housing
Historic civil rights demonstration
- SelmaAlabama civil rights city
- Montgomery Bus BoycottYearlong Alabama transit refusal
- Freedom RidersBus-borne civil rights activists
- Little Rock NineStudents who desegregated Arkansas school
sit-ins · Freedom Summer · Bloody Sunday · bus boycotts · registration drives · nonviolent resistance · I Have a Dream · Letter from Birmingham Jail
Employment discrimination prohibition statute
- EEOCFederal workplace discrimination agency
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
- congressional debateFormal lawmaker discussion
- Fourteenth AmendmentPost-Civil War constitutional addition
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- John Lewis
- Thurgood Marshall
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Forced separation by group
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
exclusion · disenfranchisement · voter suppression · redlining · racial profiling · separate but equal · white supremacy · poll taxes
Brown v. Board of Education
Landmark desegregation decision
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- Loving v. VirginiaCase legalizing interracial marriage
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
class action · consent decree · Department of Justice · federal courts
integration
Combining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
- equal protectionUniform legal treatment
fair housing · equal employment · affirmative action · inclusivity · nondiscrimination · equal access · school integration · busing · open housing
March on Washington
Historic civil rights demonstration
- SelmaAlabama civil rights city
- Montgomery Bus BoycottYearlong Alabama transit refusal
- Freedom RidersBus-borne civil rights activists
Little Rock Nine · sit-ins · Freedom Summer · Bloody Sunday · bus boycotts · registration drives · nonviolent resistance · I Have a Dream · Letter from Birmingham Jail
Title VII
Employment discrimination prohibition statute
- EEOCFederal workplace discrimination agency
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
- congressional debateFormal lawmaker discussion
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rosa ParksCivil rights icon
- John Lewis
- Thurgood Marshall
segregation
Forced separation by group
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
inequality · exclusion · disenfranchisement · voter suppression · redlining · racial profiling · separate but equal · white supremacy · poll taxes · literacy tests
NAACP
Civil rights advocacy organization
- COREAcronym for organizations
- Federal Lawsfederal laws, congressional acts, acts, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act
- LBJ EraLBJ, Great Society, Vietnam War, War on Poverty, Gulf of Tonkin
- Rights LawsUN Charter, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, ADA, Title IX
- U.S. History TermsLouisiana Purchase, New Deal, Missouri Compromise, Great Compromise, Emancipation Proclamation
- U.S. LawsAmericans with Disabilities Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, HIPAA, ADA
- civil rightsequal protection, right to life, desegregation, freedom of religion, Montgomery bus boycott
Civil Rights ActJim Crow laws
Post-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
Fugitive Slave Act · Dred Scott decision · Plessy v. Ferguson · segregation laws · literacy tests
Civil Rights Actconstitutional amendment
Formal change to founding law
Fourteenth Amendment · Fifteenth Amendment · Thirteenth Amendment · Bill of Rights · executive order
civil, civic, rights, righteous, civilian, civilized, civilization, uncivil, civility