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Period: to
Civil rights
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Start of American Civil War
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End of American Civil war
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Freedmens bureau established
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Abraham Lincoln assinated
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Mississippi enacts first black codes
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13th ammendment abolished
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Civil Rights Act
Grants black citizenship and legal rights -
KKK founded
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Supplementary freedmens bureau act
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14th ammendment
Grants citezenship to all born in America -
Freedmens bureau terminated except education
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15th ammendment
Prohibits denial of suffrage -
3 enforcement acts KKK passed
military force to supress KKK -
First Jim Crow law passed in Lousiana
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Marcus Garvey founds the universal negro improvement association
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America enters WW1
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Equal rights ammendement
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President Rooservelt establishes the civil rights section
Black facilites must be equal of those of the white -
Japense attack pearl habour
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America enters WW2
Blacks segragated to military units -
Cold War begins
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President Truman establishes commitee on civil rights
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Executive Order
9981 ending segregation in military -
Bus boycott begins
After Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat -
Bus Boycott ends
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President Kennedy improved employment opportunites
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Civil right act
Prohibits racial discrimination in all public places -
Malcolm X forms organisation of afro american unity
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Voting act abolished
no discrimination against minority , equal employment opportunites -
Malcolm X assassinated
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Selma March
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Martin Luther king assasinated
in Memphis -
Native Americans rights fund established
to help Indians on a national level -
Indian health care improvement act passed
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Indian child welfare and religious acts passed