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1868 14th amendment
adopted on July 9th as one of the reconstruction amendments. was made to address citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark case of 1896 in which the Supreme Court upheld the legality of racial segregation. At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. -
race riots in Chicago
Race riots in Chicago- 1919, 38 people died. Came from a black man being stoned by a mad white man by the beach. This started conflict between the whites and blacks. Riots struck and finally ended on August 3rd. The sociopolitical atmosphere of Chicago was one of ethnic tension caused by competition among many new groups -
executive order
Executive order 9981- 28 July 1948 issued on july 26, 1948. By U.S. president Harry S. Truman to abolish racial segregation, to create equal rights for blacks. -
brown vs. board of education
Brown vs Board of education- 1954- argued on december 9th, 1954. Argued against blacks being allowed in white schools and to have public schools and black schools be separate and not mixed. -
Emmett Till
1955 Emmett Till- August 1955- died august 28th, 1955 at the age of 14 by lynching. Was killed for being falsely accused of flirting with a white women. -
mongomery bus boycott
Montgomery bus boycott- 1955, december 5th-20th. A public protest against racial segregation. Was done on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
SCLC
SCLC- 1957 This was an african american civil rights association that closely associated themselves with martin luther king. They relied on him to lead them to getting equal rights. They marched in many places and did whatever it took to get their rights and point across. -
Little Rock central HS
1957- Little rock central HS- Under escort of the U.S.’s airborne army division, 9 black students entered an all white student school in Arkansas. Arkansas was one of the most progressive states and the supreme court declared the education was being unconstitutional because they didn’t accept black students. -
NC sit in by 4 students
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Freedom riders 1961
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States -
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. -
Letters from Birmingham Jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
University of Alabama
Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll. -
MLK speech
I have a dream- MLK was in DC and speaking and he said that one day he hopes that all men from all walks of life can life together. 250,000 people attended the speech. -
birmingham bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963 and killed 4 people in the process -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
civil rights act
Civil Right Acts- This law forbids discrimination and equal voter registration. this helped get rid of racial segregation but made anger rise within the white community -
selma of montgomery
Selma to Montgomery- Martin Luther King lead a march of thousands of people into montgomery, the capital of Alabama. This march was conducted of nonviolent black people to obtain voting rights in the south. -
Watts Riots
Watts Riots- Took place in LA on Aug 11, a small argument turned into a fight. All of these riots caused $40 million in damages -
E. order 11246
demanded equal employment opportunity for all races -
black panthers
Black Panthers- This was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist party formed in 1966 challenged police brutality. The black panthers insulted many programs and challenged them, like the free breakfast for children. -
Detroit race riots
Detroit race riots- This started on 12th street as a public disturbance. There was a police raid on on an unlicensed bar. People were angry at the police and began to riot and it turned into one of the deadliest protest in American history. -
MLK
1968- MLK- Martin Luther King was in memphis Tennessee and got shot while standing on a balcony. Martin Luther King was at a sanitation worker’s strike and got shot in the jaw, severing his spine. -
civil rights act of 1968
Civil Rights Act- This gave equal housing opportunity to anybody regardless of race or religion.
