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13th Amendment
13th Amendment Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, with exemption of it being because of punishment or crime -
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. -
15th Amendment
gave the right to vote to colored men -
Tuskegee Institute created
First college or higher education school that allowed African Americans to attend -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The case began when African american man, Homer Plessy refused to sit in the car for blacks while riding in the train. the supreme court created and upheld the separate but equal doctrine. -
NAACP created
The NAACP is an organization in the US to advance equality fo African Americans -
Brown v. Board of Education
US supreme court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional which would then help influence other segregation topic in the public. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
An african american civil rights organization which was used to get rid of segregation and promote the goals of social equality, huge role in civil rights movement -
Little Rock 9
First 9 African American students in AR that got to go to a non-segregated public school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The first gov. civil right legislation passed after the civil rights act of 1975. -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
Non-violent protest from african americans sitting at a lunch counter and won't leave after being denied service. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
This civil rights group that was made to give younger blacks more of a choice during the civil rights movement. -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
The artist used walls and used them to support Mexican Americans
by creating unique visuals for everyone to see to express their culture -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activist who rode buses to segregated south in the US to challenge the supreme court -
Cesar Chavez
African American civil rights activist he co founded the national farm works association, later the united farm works union -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Letter that MLK wrote from jail “replying” to the clergymen who had criticized him and his protest -
24th Amendment
prohibits any poll taxes in elections for federal officers -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination practices based on race, color, gender, or original part of the 14th amendment prohibited application of voter registration racial segregation in school and public -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
signed by president Lyndon B Johnson aimed to break legal barriers that prevented African Americans to vote it outlawed discriminatory voting practices -
MLK assassinated
Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis Tennessee. This angered many African Americans and created violence within protest
