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The period from 1865 to 1877 in which former Confederate states were brought back into the Union, often characterized by a military presence in the South and civil rights progress for Blacks.
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An executive order issued by President Barack Obama that halted the deportation of Dreamers and allowed them to work legally in the United States.
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A form of protest against segregated restaurants in which Black patrons refused to move from Whites-only sections.
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A legal principle that allowed states to segregate the races in public facilities, as long as the state provided each race with basic access to the public facility in question.
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A proposal to compensate African Americans for the history of slavery and discrimination
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A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that prohibited government-sponsored segregation as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause.
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A specific provision in the Fourteenth Amendment that prevents states from passing laws that treat people differently on account of race or ethnicity.
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Laws passed in Southern states during the immediate aftermath of the Civil War that singled out African Americans for mistreatment and discrimination.
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A policy designed to disenfranchise Blacks by exempting Whites, but not Blacks, from literacy tests.
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A government denying a group the right to vote.
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Nineteenth-century political activists who sought to end slavery.
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Undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
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