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13th Amendment
Ratified on January 31st, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and forced servitude, unless it was a punishment for a crime. It is quite possibly the most important Amendment in the civil rights movement, as without it African Americans would still be slaves. -
14th Amendment
Ratified on July 28th, 1868, the 14th Amendment is the 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
Ratified on February 3rd, 1870, the 15th Amendment allowed any person regardless of their race, color, or if they were a slave or had a relative that was a slave in the past to vote. It is significant because it allowed People of Color to vote and have a say in what goes on in the country. -
Tuskegee Institute created
Formed July 4th, 1881, the Tuskegee Institute is a private, predominantly black private university, and was the first higher education institution for African Americans. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Feruson was a landmark Supreme Court case, which led to segregation keeping its place in America as long as the quality between the segregated establishments remained equal, which led to the term of “separate but equal”. -
NAACP created
Founded January 12th, 1909 by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B Du Bois the NAACP is the oldest black led civil rights organization and were one of the lead players in fighting for the equality of African Americans. -
19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment made it so that a citizen’s right to vote cannot be denied based on their sex, and the impact this caused was that it allowed not only men to vote, but women as well. -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
The ERA is a proposed amendment that has still not been fully ratified to this day, and says that all Amercans will have equal rights regardless of sex. -
Executive Order 9981
This Executive Order ended discrimination based on race or religion in the armed forces, leading to the end of segregation in the Korean War -
Brown v. Board of Education
Landslide decision by supreme court ruling segregation in public schools unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Political and Social protest against segregation on busses which led to a decline in the companies profits -
Little rock nine
Group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Prevention of entering the school became the Little Rock Crisis which then led to segregation in schools being seen as unconstitutional -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
Founded by MLK on January 10th, 1957, the SCLC was an organization that looked to further the civil rights movement through non-violent means, and contributed heavily to the elimination of racial discrimination and segregation. -
Civil rights act of 1957
Signed by Eisenhower, first Civil Rights act since 1875, and is used to prosecute individuals that prevent others from voting based on race -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
July 1960 Protest Used to be a store, now a civil rights museum -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
1960 Student sit-ins at segregated restaurants and facilities. Coloured people got arrested just for sitting. -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
Area of Murals from 1964 and 1978 about prominent participants of the civil rights movement. -
Freedom Riders
challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
This letter was written by MLK during his time in Birmingham Jail, where he defended his non-violent forms of protest, and was a reproducible account of his movement. -
March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech
MLK gave this speech calling for equality and the end of racism for African Americans in America, and was the most successful part of MLK’s protesting
