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Formally abolished slavery in the United States
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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.
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Voting Rights. Citizens cannot be denied their right to vote because of their race, color, or because they were once slaves.
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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.
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The Supreme Court legalized segregation throughout the nation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was ¨equal¨ ("equal but separate").
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Guaranteed women the constitutional right to vote.
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President Truman ordered all armed forces and the federal government desegregated.
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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.
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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.
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A group that used the authority and power of Black churches to organize non violent protests, MLK co-founded the SCLC.
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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.
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Organized United Farm Workers; used nonviolent protest and boycott to achieve better working conditions for farmers, especially Mexican Americans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
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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.
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MLK was fatally shot by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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First woman appointed to the Supreme Court
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1st person of Puerto Rican descent to serve in the US Supreme Court.
