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American Civil War
he American Civil War or Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
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Reconstruction
, in US history , the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded. -
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. ... June 13, 1866 - The House of Representatives passed the 14th Amendment by a vote of 120 to 32. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Ferguson case, 163 US 537 is a legal decision in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of the United States in which it was decided to maintain the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public places under the doctrine of "Separated but equal." -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that 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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude. " -
Jim Crow Laws Start in South
Jim Crow laws were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the American South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest that began in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, with the intention of opposing racial segregation policy in the public transportation system -
Rosa Parks Arrested
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, chose to take a seat on the bus on her ride home from work. Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It also led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and enacted by President Dwight D. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Chicano Mural Movement Begins
The Chicano mural movement began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. -
Affirmative Action
Kennedy on March 6, 1961 , required government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." It established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO) -
The Feminine Mystique
The mystique of femininity is the name of a key book of feminism written during the second wave of feminism by feminist theorist and activist Betty Friedan and published in the United States in 1963. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for work and freedom was a great demonstration that took place in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic speech "I have a dream" defending racial harmony in the Monument Lincoln during the march. -
George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance
George Wallace, the Democratic Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two African American students. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which 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. -
24th Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment ( Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
The voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Malcom X Assassinated
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, and whose full official name was El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American speaker, religious minister, and activist. -
United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike
The Grape Strike in Delano was a strike made by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and its acronym "UFW" against grape sowers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and lasted more than five years. -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court
President Lyndon Johnson appoints US Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
What We Know About Why James Earl Ray Killed Martin Luther King Jr. Wednesday marks 50 years since Martin Luther King , Jr. was assassinated on the second-floor balcony near his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he had been supporting black sanitation workers on strike for better pay and working conditions. -
Title IX
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 is a 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
The Roe v. Wade or Roe v. Case Wade is the name of the court case of 1973, by which the Supreme Court of the United States decriminalized 7-for a split decision against 2- induced abortion in that country.
