Civil Rights

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  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

  • Great depression

  • world war 2

    world war 2

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional

  • muder of emmett Till

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

  • little rock nine

    little rock nine

  • sit-ins

    sit-ins

  • Birmingham Campaign

    Birmingham Campaign
    The Birmingham campaign, or 1963 Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • march on washington

    march on washington

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Not long ago, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964,

  • civil rights act

    civil rights act
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights

  • marthin luther king assassination