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13th Amendment
Banned the owning of slaves in the US -
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
Allowed colored people to vote -
Tuskegee Institute Created
Created by Booker T Washington to teach colored people, hoping that this would build the foundation to equality in the future. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Allowed the separation of coloreds from whites under the reasoning different but equal. -
NAACP created
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created to end segregation in America. -
19th Amendment
Gave all people the right to vote regardless of age and gender. -
Equal Rights Amendment proposed
The ERA was first by the National Women's political party to end segregation by gender and allow women to be completely equal. -
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Cesar Chavez
A civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers -
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Chicano Movement
Civil rights movement for Mexican Americans -
Executive Order 9981
This executive order called for the desegregation of the military armed forces. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme court case that stated the segregation of schools under "separate but equal" actually wasn't equal at all and they ended segregation in schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In order to protest segregated seating on buses, a group of African Americans refused to ride city buses as a form of peaceful protest. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed
Formed to bring an end to black segregation and during the Vietnam war they peacefully protested to speak out against. -
Little Rock 9
Formed to fight the denial of black enrollment in Little Rock Central High and responded to the Little Rock Crisis. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Signed by Eisenhower and established the civil rights division. -
Greensboro, NC sitins
A group of African Americans students set in a segregated part of a diner and refused to leave even when they were denied service. -
SNCC formed
Formed to fully organize student involvement in the Civil Rights movements of the 1960's. -
Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
A letter written that defends civil rights activists who use non-violent methods of protest. -
March on Washington "I have a dream" speech
A speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. where he spoke out against racism and segregation against all colored people in the USA.
