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Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Nation of Islam
African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit. -
CORE
African-American organization that helped with Civil Rights movement. -
Malcolm little arrested
began a campaign to improve his reading and writing. read every book the prison library had in philosophy, history, literature, and science. -
Jakie Robinson
Breakthrough of the color line in sports occurred when Jackie Robinson, a 28-year-old African-American ballplayer and war veteran, was brought up from the minor league. -
Executive Order 9981
Abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Court declared separated public schools for black and whites to be unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
African American 14 year old who was lynched. he was beat and mutilated before being fatally shot, and sunk his body in the Tallahatchie River -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
SCLC
African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African Americans enrolled to high school. Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
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Greensboro Sit-ins
Were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, -
SNCC
One of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement -
Stokely Carmichael and Black Power
U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the black nationalism rallying slogan, “black power.” -
Ruby Bridges
First black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. -
Freedom rides
Civil rights activists rode buses into segregated southern United States. -
James Meredith
James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested. -
Connor and Birmingham Alabama Protest
Eugene "Bull" Connor ordered his police department to use fire hoses, police dogs, and night sticks to break up the demonstrations -
Letter From Birmingham Jail
States, people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The march was to stand up for civil and economic rights for African Americans during a time when racism was more prevalent throughout society. -
Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church
Act of white supremacist terrorism bombing an african american church. -
Freedom Summer
Attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner
Civil rights workers were abducted and murdered in an act of racial violence. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
24th Amendment
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. -
Malcolm X Assassination
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Assassinated -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment -
Watts Riots
Argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight. The community reacted in outrage to allegations of police brutality that soon spread, and six days of looting and arson followed. -
Executive Order 11246
Requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. -
Black Panthers Founded
Was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Loving v. Virginia
Marriage violated laws of marrying different races. -
Newark and Detroit Race Riots
Major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark. The four days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured. -
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Following years of poor pay and dangerous working conditions, and provoked by the crushing to death of workers -
Kerner Commission
releases its report, condemning racism as the primary cause of the recent surge of riots. The report, which declared that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white–separate and unequal,” -
Tommie Smith and John Carlos
They stood atop the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, bowed their heads and raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the national anthem -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
Southern Manifesto
Opposition to racial integration of public places. -
Bloody Sunday
British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest march against internment.
