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Civil Rights Events
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14th Amendment Passed
The 14th amendment marks the start of the civil rights movement as it bans states from taking away rights and privileges from citizens, and states what citizenship is. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
In this supreme court case, the court rules that "separate but equal" facilities are legal. It happened due to the fact that Plessy boarded a white only train car. -
Grandfather clause outlawed by Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court deemed grandfather clauses unconstitutional in Guinn v. United States by the terms that it conflicted the 15th amendment. -
Race riots and lynchings claim hundreds of lives
Hundereds of blacks are murdered in cities like Chicago and Omaha, Nebraska. -
Executive Order 8802 forbids race discrimination in hiring
Executive Order 8802 was the first federal action to promote equal oppartunity and ban job hirings that are because of race. It was signed be Franklin D Roosevelt under the pressure of civil rights activists. -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka decision
This is a supreme cout case that deemed separate schools for different race unconsitutional. You may have noticed that it has done the complete opposite of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. In additional to eliminating separate schools for races it also eliminated all separate facilities for people of different races. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Although the timeline says 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott actually happened from December 1 1955 to December 20 1956. It all started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to get out of her seat so a white person could sit in it. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is most likely the most well known event of the civil rights movement. This is because this is when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream speech". It is estimated that 200,000-300,000 people participated in this event that called for them to march to the National Mall. -
24th Amendment passed
The 24th amendments abolishes poll tax for both congress and state. Since most black people were poor, in the civil rights movement, they could not vote because poll tax made them pay money to vote -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcom X, an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist, was assasinated while he was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity. There were some reasons the murderer might have done this. Malcom X supported that black people are the original people of the world, that white people are devils, blacks are superior to whites, and that the fall of the white people is imminent -
Voting rights act of 1965
The voting rights act of 1965 bans discrimation when it comes to voting. This includes implementing "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right ... to vote on account of race, color, or language minority status." -
Martin Luther King Jr. is Assasinated
While supporoting sanitation workers rights, King is shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesee. Riots break out in 125 different cities.
