Civil Rights

By Daniel sigala

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Thirteenth Amendment

  • The Fourteenth Amendment

  • The Fifteenth Amendment

  • Jim crow law

  • The Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal

  • The NAACP is founded by African-American leaders

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play major league baseball.

  • President Harry S. Truman ends segregation in the U.S. armed forces.

  • The Supreme Court rules that segregation in the schools is unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus.

  • - Nine African-American students in Arkansas (nicknamed the Arkansas Nine) attend a previously all-white high school.

  • The Freedom Riders protest by riding buses into the segregated southern states

  • The Birmingham Campaign takes place in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • The March on Washington by over 200,000 protesters occurs.

  • The Civil Rights Act is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Marchers in Selma, Alabama are met by police with tear gas.

  • The Voting Rights Act is signed into law making it illegal to prevent any citizen from voting regardless of race.

  • Race riots erupt in Watts, California.