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  • 13th amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

  • 14th amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

  • 15th amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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    Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896

  • Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County

    Mendez, et al v. Westminster [sic] School District of Orange County, et al, 64 F.Supp. 544, aff'd, 161 F.2d 774, was a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California.
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    Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • The Emmett Till murder

    After Emmett Till was brutally murdered by white people when he was 14, the case caused an outrage among America’s black population.
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    The Montgomery bus boycott

    Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, boycott buses 
for 13 months after the arrest of Rosa Parks for breaking segregation laws. The US Supreme 
Court eventually rules a complete end to segregation on city buses in Montgomery.

  • The Little Rock school crisis

    Arkansas Governor Orval E Faubus prevents the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School by calling out National Guard troops.

  • The March on Washington

    Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters president 
A Philip Randolph and his assistant Bayard Rustin organized a March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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    The Birmingham Campaign

    The SCLC ran their first community-wide non-violent direct action campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.
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    1964 Civil Rights Act

    US Congress passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act which, among other things, forbids segregation in public facilities and accommodations.

  • Voting Rights Act

    1965 Voting Rights Act contains provisions for the federal protection of black voters.

  • Black power

    SNCC leader, Stockily Carmichael, makes the "Black Power" slogan more popular

  • King is assassinated

    In Memphis, Tennessee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.