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The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott decision. A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control (that is, within the Confederacy). -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who have been emancipated. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
rights of passing laws of allowing racial segregation in public areas -
Creation of the NAACP
fighting prejudice and lynching -
19th Amendment
women the right to vote -
Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier. A young rookie for the Brooklyn Dodgers forever changed the game of baseball on April 15, 1947. Number 42, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier when he took to Ebbets Field that day. Robinson was the first African-American ballplayer allowed into Major League Baseball. -
Brown vs The Topeka Board of Education
racial segregation ended in schools -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
group of black people who attended little rock central high school. -
“I Have a Dream” Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
The March on Washington
civil and economical rights -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and discrimination on the basis of race, color,religion, sex or national origin. -
NOW
enforcing laws against sex discrimination -
Selma, Alabama Marches
It was a march that Martin Luther Junior led with nonviolent people. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
stopped various devices like literature tests. -
Creation of the Black Panther Party
it was a self defense thing -
Jim Crow Laws
legalized racial segregation. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The killing of Martin Luther King Jr. -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
it guaranteed equal legal rights for all American citizens. -
Title IX
civil rights laws in the U.S -
Roe vs Wade
a decision to make women choices of abortion okay.