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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in the united states -
15th Amendment
could vote now no matter what your kin color was. -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
Tuskegee Institute created
Booker t Washington founded the tusk-gee institute to further the economic progression of his race. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Facilites for the public were to be separate but equal. -
NAACP created
created to help the advancement of colored people, and their overall rights as human beings. -
19th Amendment
With this amendment women were granted the right to vote. -
Executive Order 9981
This order given by president Truman de segregated our military completely. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This ruling determined that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A social and political protest protesting the segregation of the buses in Montgomery Alabama. -
Little Rock 9
The 9 students that were originally prevented from entering their new school by the Arkansas governor. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
Civil rights organization that successfully staged the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Act that allowed federal officials to prosecute those who prevented others right to vote to the fullest extent of the law. -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
Sit ins of diners originally in Greensboro nc that were black people sitting in a only whites diner that spread throughout college towns in the south. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
Non violent committee formed to give younger African Americans a voice in the civil rights movement. -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
Throughout the southwest Mexicans artist started using walls throughout towns to depict Mexican culture in the united states. -
Freedom Riders
riders of interstate busses that rode them to protest and to help put an end to segregation on interstate travel. -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
A letter sent from mlk to men in the news who were critiquing him and him causes to tell them what was on his mind and what he was thinking -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
amendment with the intention of giving all citizens equal rights not based on ones sex. -
Cesar Chavez
American labor leader, community organizer as well as a latino civil right activist. He started the national farm workers organization.
