Civil Rights

By JeniG44

  • Ku Klux Klan was founded

    Ku Klux Klan was founded
    A vehicle for white southern resistance to allowing equality for Black Americans.

  • Confederate States of America dissolved

    Confederate States of America dissolved
    Due to the Civil War the ending of slavery happened in the seven southern states. These states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction
    The turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern States from the confederacy. In 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “Black Codes” to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other African Americans. This ended in 1877.

  • American Civil Rights Movement

    American Civil Rights Movement
    The major catalyst for the movement was in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Passed to ensure that African Americans were allowed the basic right to vote. However in the south, they still had to fight for the right. Martin Luther King Jr came to Selma, Alabama to help hold peaceful demonstrations for these rights.

  • Jimmie Lee Jackson beaten

    Jimmie Lee Jackson beaten
    Jimmie Lee Jackson was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama. He was participating in a peaceful voting rights march in the city. He was beaten by troops and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. He passed away 8 days later.

  • Selma’s Bloody Sunday

    Selma’s Bloody Sunday
    Due to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson. John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers. Footage of the violence shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.