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13th Amendment
Formally abolished slavery in the United States -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. This amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
15th Amendment
Voting Rights. Citizens cannot be denied their right to vote because of their race, color, or because they were once slaves. -
Tuskegee Institutie Created
The institute was founded by Booker T Washington. The institute was a normal and industrial school that focused on training young black students. Washington justified segregated, vocational training as a necessary first step on the road to racial equality. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
The Supreme Court legalized segregation throughout the nation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was ¨equal¨ ("equal but separate"). -
19th Amendment
Guaranteed women the constitutional right to vote. -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman ordered all armed forces and the federal government desegregated. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Topeka, Kansas. The Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson "separate but equal". Segregation of children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. States were ordered to integrate their schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Montgomery Blacks united in a year-long bus boycott. It was a nonviolent and began a national movement. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
A group that used the authority and power of Black churches to organize non violent protests, MLK co-founded the SCLC. -
Little Rock Nine
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was the first high school in the South to integrate. President Eisenhower sent Federal troops, Orval Faubus was violating the Presidents order, to accompany the nine black students attending an all white high school. -
Cesar Chavez
Organized United Farm Workers; used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers, especially Mexican Americans. -
March on Washington: “I Have A Dream” Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech. 200k to 300k people ascended on Washington in hopes of achieving social and political equality. It was one of the largest political rallies in US history. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in public accomodations, prohibited discrimination in any federally assisted program, outlawed discrimination in most employment; helped to give African-Americans equality on paper. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American voting rights, LBJ. Banned literacy tests in counties where over half of eligible voters had been disenfranchised. -
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to the Supreme Court
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice -
American Indian Movement (AIM)
A civil rights group organized to promote the interests of Native Americans. Purpose was to draw attention to the low lives of Native Americans such as low pay, high unemployment, and fought for better education for Native American children. -
MLK Assassination
MLK was fatally shot by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to the Supreme Court
First woman appointed to the Supreme Court -
Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to the Supreme Court
1st person of Puerto Rican descent to serve in the US Supreme Court.
