Civil rights

By Silvino Cuevas1216

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

  • The Fourteenth Amendment

  • The Fifteenth Amendment

  • Jim Crow laws

  • Plessy v. Ferguson case

  • The NAACP

  • Jackie Robinson

  • President Harry S. Truman ends segregation in the U.S. armed forces.

  • The Supreme Court rules that segregation in the schools is unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education case, overturning the earlier ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus. This sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasts for over a year. Eventually, segregation on the buses in Montgomery comes to an end.

  • The Little Rock Nine

  • The Freedom Riders protest by riding buses into the segregated southern states challenging their Jim Crow laws.

  • The Birmingham Campaign takes place in Birmingham, Alabama. Schoolchildren marching in non-violent protest are met with police dogs and fire hoses. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested and writes his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

  • The March on Washington by over 200,000 protesters occurs. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • The Civil Rights Act is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlaws discrimination based on race, national origin, and gender. It also outlaws segregation and the Jim Crow laws.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • - Marchers in Selma, Alabama are met by police with tear gas. Several marchers are injured and the day is nicknamed "Bloody Sunday."

  • The Voting Rights Act is signed into law making it illegal to prevent any citizen from voting regardless of race.

  • Race riots erupt in Watts, California.