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First Civil Rights Act
Congress passed the first Civil Rights Act, which defined African Americans as citizens -
14th Amendment Passed
This amendment means that all people born in the US are US citizens -
15th Amendment Passed
The 15th Amendment gives African American men the right to vote, declaring that no one can be denied the right based on skin color -
First Women's Suffrage Amendment
Susan B. Anthony proposed the amendment, but it was rejected by Congress in 1887 -
Plessy v. Furguson
Homer Plessy refused to sit in a train car for blacks, so he went to court with it. He ended up losing, because the court ruled that the trains were 'separate but equal." -
NAACP Was Founded
The NAACP was founded, created for the advancement of African Americans while following judicial policies. -
19th Amendment Passed
The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote in Congress -
Shelley v. Kraemer
Shelley v. Kraemer was a case that ruled that it was a violation of the 14th Amendment for the state to refuse housing based on the color of a person's skin -
Brown v. The Board of Education
This case caused the Supreme Court to rule that racial segregation of children in public schools is unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibited discrimination based on religion, race, color or sex. It strengthened the desegregation of schools and the enforcement of voting rights -
NOW Formed
NOW was formed to give women's rights activists more power, and to push for full equality between the genders. -
Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
This case ruled that the school's 'freedom of choice' plans did not comply with the school board's responsibility to create a desegregated school environment. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
This case upheld busing programs that bused children to school, in an effort to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the US -
Proposition 209
This was a ballot in California that prohibited the state from discrimination against people on the basis of race, color or sex.
