Brown v. Board of Education:
It was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which declared the state laws establishing separate public schools for White and blacks to be illegal. This case helped in ending the segreagtion of Blacks in education.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
ERA is a proposed amendment to the United States constitution which called for equal legal rights for all Americans irrespective of their sex. Its purpose was to end discrimination between men and women in divorce, property, employment and other areas.
ERA was passed by the US Senate on March 22 1972.
Flappers
They were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to Jazz and expressed their dissatisfaction over the societal norms by using such tactics.
Freedom riders:
A group of Northern idealists who were active in the Civil Rights Movement. They included both White and Black people. They rode buses to the South in early 1960s to challenge racial segregatio there.
Jim Crow Laws:
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period. The laws were enforced until 1965 when the Civil Rights Movement led to various anti-Racial and equality measures.
League of Women Voters:
It is an American civic organizaiton whihc was formed after women gained suffrage with the 19th Amendment to the constitution. Its purpose was to help women take a large role in public life after getting the right to vote. The league was formed in Feb 14, 1920.
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is part of the Red Scare period of American history in the late 1940s and 1950s. During that time, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a series of investigations and hearings to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government
Roe v. Wade:
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. This law was passed after decades of struggle by women in United States for their rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, its aim was to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
