Civil Rights Events (O'Neill)

By O'Neill.Ventry

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolish Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    equal protection laws

  • 15th Amendment

    African American men the right to vote

  • Tuskegee Institute created

    Historical Black University

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Racial Segregation on public facilities

  • NAACP created

    African American Civil Rights organization

  • SLCC formed

    Most diverse public community college

  • Executive Order 9981

    Abolish discrimination in the armed forces

  • Truman’s desegregation of the military

    abolish discrimination in the military

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Abolish discrimination in public schools
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Refusal to ride public buses but instead they walked instead

  • Little Rock 9

    9 students who came to school during the discrimination

  • Civil Rights Act

    civil rights labor law that outlaws all discrimination

  • SNCC formed

    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

  • Chicano Movement (include the mural movement)

    African Americans using walls for murals

  • Greensboro NC Sit-in’s

    nonviolent protests
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    Freedom Riders

    civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

  • Cesar Chavez (Civil Rights not birth)

    Farm worker labor leader

  • Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

    The letter written in jail

  • March on Washington – “I have a Dream Speech”

    The speech is the most famous speech written

  • 24 Amendment

    No poll tax for voting

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • 19th Amendment

    prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex

  • March from Selma Alabama

    three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery

  • Voting Rights Act

    prohibits racial discrimination in voting

  • Black Panthers

    Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary political organization founded by Bobby Seale

  • Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

    Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

  • American Indian Movement founded

    Native American grassroots movement

  • MLK assassinated

    MLK was assassinated

  • Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to Supreme Court

    Added to the court

  • Sonia Sotomayor appointed to Supreme Court

    added to the court