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Dred Scott Case
A slave who lived in a free state was sent back to a slave state, but was not granted citizenship even after living in the free state for some time. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress. -
15th Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
14th Amendment
Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. -
Equal Rights Act
Ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal" -
Creation of the NAACP
Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
Becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
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Brown V. Board of Education
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
I Have a Dream Speech
Delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for -
The March On Washington
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
Freedom Summer
A volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, -
Selma Alabama Marches
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama -
NOW
The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization was started. -
Creation of the Black Panther Party
Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. -
Assasination of MLK
Civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Title IX
Federal law that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. -
Roe V. Wade
A landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions