Civil Rights: Jim Crow Laws

By asimpson13

  • Jim Crow Character arose

    A white man in black-face was doing comidic sketch

  • 13th Amendment

    ratification of the 13th amendment led way for abolishion of slavery but made finding a job for former slave next to impossible.

  • 14th Amendment

    Gave Black people legal protection under law

  • 15th Amendment

    Gave Black men the right to vote

  • Hall V.s DeCuir

    the states cannot prohibit segregation on public transportation. This marks the beginning of the Jim Crow laws in the south.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

    separate but equal public transportation.

  • Louisiana Separate Car Act

    trains provide separate cars for whites and blacks

  • Plessy V.s. Ferguson

    the supreme court decision that decided blacks and whites should be separate but equal. This solidified the Jim Crow laws.

  • Beginning of Civil Rights Movement

  • Brown V.s Board of Education of Topeka

    The Supreme court rules that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This allowed black citizens more rights than before.

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This allowed black men the right to vote.

  • Loving V.s Virginia

    The courts ruled that miscegenation laws were unconstitutional.

  • Fair Housing Act of 1968

    This stopped the racial discrimination for blacks finding proper housing.