Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Dred Scott

    Black people, free or enslaved are not allowed to be citizens
  • Bureau

    Provide relief and help. Black schools fall under this bureau
  • Civil Rights Act

    Granted Black people basic economic rights and right to own property.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment was ratified and ruled that all people born or naturalized are considered citizens.
  • Civil Rights 1875

    Prohibits discrimination in theatres, inns and other public places.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    separate but equal facilities for White and Black railroad passengers did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
  • NACCP

    eliminate lynching, and to fight racial and social injustice, primarily through legal action.
  • NACCP

    began his strategy of challenging segregation in graduate and professional schools.
  • Sipuel vs. Oklahoma

    A unanimous Supreme Court held that Lois Ada Sipuel could not be denied entrance to a state law school solely because of her race.
  • Brown vs Board

    On February 28, Brown v. Board of Education was filed in Federal district court, in Kansas.