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The 13th Amendment is enacted, abolishing slavery in the United States.
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The 14th Amendment is enacted, giving equal citizenship to all people born in the United States.
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The 15th Amendment is enacted, giving voting rights to all land-owning adult males in the United States.
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A light-skinned black man named Homer Plessy is arrested for sitting in a "white" car on a railroad train. He takes the caseto the Supreme court, and in the end decision it is ruled that it is constitutional have the railroad cars "seperate but equal".
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The 19th Amendment is enacted, granting voting rights to women.
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A Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation of public schools to be illegal.
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An order issued by Presiden Truman, which banned racial segregation in the armed forces.
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Rosa Parks was on a public bus and was sitting in her designated "colored" seat and was asked to stand to make room for white people. When she refused, the police were called and she was arrested
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The majority of African American's in Montgomery organized a bus boycott and either car pooled, walked, or rode bikes for their transportation.
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A Civil Rights act passed to ensure that all African Americans would have the right to vote.
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Amendment to the US Constitution which banned poll taxes.
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Outlawed major forms of discrimination agaisnt African Americans.
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Ended racial voting discriminatory practices.
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Provided equal housing opportunties for all races in the United States.
