Civil Rights Movement

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    the right to vote shall not be denied an account to vote.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    Granted African American men the right to vote
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    Plessy v. Ferguson

    "equal but separate"
  • NAACP is founded

    NAACP is founded
    Established to respond to the ongoing violence against black Americans.
  • The 1st women suffrage Amendment was introduced in Congress, but was defeated

    The 1st women suffrage Amendment was introduced in Congress, but was defeated
    Denied women's right to vote
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Granted women the right to vote
  • Shelly v Kraemer

    Shelly v Kraemer
    Curt ruled that enforcement of racially restrictive covenants were violation of the 15th Amendment
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    Separating children in public school on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
    Rosa Bus refused to give up her bus seat to a white man
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • Congress passes the 1st Civil Rights Act

    Congress passes the 1st Civil Rights Act
    Prohibits discrimination on face, color religion, sex, or national origin
  • NOW(National Organization of women)

    NOW(National Organization of women)
    Founded by a group of activists who wanted to end sex discrimination
  • Green v. Country School Board of New Kent Country

    Green v. Country School Board of New Kent Country
    Court held that freedom of choice plans were unconsituinal when they failed to result in a racially nondiscriminatory, unitary school system
  • Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education

    Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education
    Charlotte charged with maintaining segregation public school
  • Proposition 209- California

    Proposition 209- California
    Prohibit state government insitutions from considering sex, race, ethnicity, in the areas of public employment, public education.