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Thirteenth Ammendment
The Thirteenth Ammendment abolished slavery in USA. It was written after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Speech. -
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Civil Rights Movement
This was the time it took for black people to be completley free. -
Fourteenth Ammendment
The Fourteenth Ammendment granted citizenship to all African Americans Born in the USA. This also forbidded states to deny any person life, liberty or property. -
Fifteenth Ammendment
The Fifteent Ammendment granted voting rights to African Americans.However, various practices were used to prevent African Americans from voting, especially in the South. -
Poll Tax Abolished
This involed the making of the 24th ammendment. The rule that black people had to pay to vote was abolished. -
Integration of the Armed Forces
This was an executive order passed by president Harry S. Truman. It stopped racial discrimination within our Armed Forces, which in turn ended the Segregation in the services. -
Murder of Emmet Till
On this day, Bryant murdered Emmet Till because Emmet flirted with Bryant's wife. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give way to a white person that just boarded the bus. She got arrested later that day. They also took her to court. -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. The organization depended on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. It was lead by Martin Luther King. -
Crisis at Central High School and the “ Little Rock Nine”
Nine African-American students attended this formerly all-white Central High School. It was the most important national example of the implementation of the May 17, 1954 Supreme Court decision of the Brown v. Board of Education. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
In this city, four African American college students from a North Carolina all-black college, went to get served in an all-white restaurant at Woolworth’s. They asked for food, and was refused service and asked to leave. Food was thrown on them. This action was directed by Blair Jnr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil started the sit-ins. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. and others had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). -
JFK Becomes President
On Nov. 8, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency in one of the closest and most contentious elections in American history. -
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were conceived by the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961 as the next step in protesting the segregated businesses of the southern states, encouraged by the success that the previous year's sit-in movement had in getting whites-only lunch counters to serve African Americans. -
Integration of The University of Mississippi “James Meredith”
When Meredith arrived at Ole Miss to register for classes on September 20, 1962, he found the entrance blocked. Riots erupted. Police were everyehere. Even Marshals were there. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. -
MLK arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Martin Luther King arrested and jailed during a desegregation campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, he wrote his famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Written on scraps of available paper, King tried to answer critics who accused him of being a troublemaker. He explained why people had "a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -
March on Washington DC “I Have a Dream Speech”
King spoke these words for freedom of jobs to black people. Several of King's staff members actually tried to discourage him from using the same "I have a dream" refrain again. -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
This was an act of white supermacist terrorism. four girls died. This marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
After JFK dies, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. -
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders
Three social activists trying to give African Americans the voting right were killed by White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was a legislation signed by President Lyndon B Johnson. It helped end the discrimination while voting and end all segregation in public facilities. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
He was assassinated in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. The reason he was assassinated was because he was fighting for black people. -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
There were three of these marches. The marches grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, launched by local African-Americans who formed the Dallas County Voters League. The marches against the discrimination of voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This prevented discrimination in voting rights between white and black people. -
Black Panther Party Founded
It was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. -
Stokley Carmichael coins the phrase “Black Power”
Carmichael gives his speech to prove the power of black people. -
MLK Assassinated
He was assassinated in memphis, TN. He was shot. -
Civil rights Act of 1968
Provided equal housing opportunities in USA regardless of race, creed, or national origin.