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13th amendments
Made slavery illegal -
15th amendments
All male citizens have the right to vote -
Desegregation of Armed Forces
President Harris Truman desegregated the armed forces through an executive order after World War II -
Oliver Brown V . bOARD OF EDUCATION OF tOPEKA, kANSAS
In 1950, school segregation was widely accepted throughout the nation. In fact, it was required by law in most southern states. In 1952, the supreme court heard a number of school segregation cases, including Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional: overthrowing the 1896 plessy v ferguson ruling that had set the precedent seperate but equal. -
Desegregation at Little Rock, Akansas
Little Rock Central High School was to begin the 1957 school years desegregated. On september 2 the night before the first day school, Governor Faubus announced that he had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to monitor the school the next day. When a group of nine black students arrived at Central High on september 3, they were kept from entering -
Freedom Rides
In 1961, bus loads of people waged a crossed-country campaign to try to end the segregation of bus terminals. The nonviolet protest, however, was brutally received at many stops along the way. -
March On Washinton
To build support and to publicize the civil rights movements a march on Washington D.C was organized. The historic events became the symbol of the civil rights movement. It is at this march that Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr gave his famous I HAVE A DREAM speech. -
Voting Right Act
The Voting Right Sct was passed in response to the drive to register eligible African American voters in Selma, Alabama.Dr Martin Luther King Jr led the campaign to help register voters but when they tried to register to vote, they were beaten up and arrested. -
26th amendments
This amendments extended the right to vote to American citizens who were eighteen years old or older. With this amendment every eligible citizen over the age of eighteen could vote. -
Voting Rights Act
In 1975 congress passed another voting Right Act ; this time to aid immigrants. The law required states and communities with large number of non-English speaking residents to print the ballot in various foreign languages. -
Plessy v Ferguson
This supreme court ruling supported the legal doctrine of segregation: Seperate But Equal - legal to segregate so long as the facilities for African Americans and whites were "equal". -
Americans With Disability Act
Americans with disabilities Act 1990 prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities in employment, transportation, telephone services, and access to public buildings. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 42 years old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgometry, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. The following night, fifty leaders of the Negro Community met at Dexter Avenue Babtist Church to discuss the issue. Among them was the young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The leader organize the mongomery Bus Boycott which led him in 386 days in jail.
