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Civil Rights

By felipesosa

  • Civil War broke out

  • KKK was formed

    Created by whites to opress Blacks

  • 13 th amendment

    Slavery was abolished

  • the 14th Amendment

    Black people receive Protection, they were more equal to whites talking about the laws.

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • 15th Amendment

    Black Men could Vote

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875,

    Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, for example in restaurants, theaters, parks, etc..

  • 49 blacks were killed

  • Bad News For Blacks

    The Court ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibited states, but not citizens, from discriminating.

  • Poll Tax

    As a strategy to blacks not to vote, a tax to vote was stablished. Blacks were poor and couldnt pay for this

  • Plessy Vs Fergusson

    "Separate but equal"

  • Usa entered the WWI

    370,000 blacks went to duty

  • Women could vote

    19 th amendment

  • WWII started

    Blacks should go to war, in that aspect they were equal to whites.

  • The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded .

    Made for giving more equaity to blacks.

  • WWII ended

    1,150,000 blacks were involved in this conflict.