-
13th Amendment
Abolish slavery -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
15th Amendment
All men can vote it does not matter what race or their skin color. -
Tuskegee Institute
It was to train African-Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The racial segregation under the “separate but equal” The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger refused to sit in a car for blacks -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to secure the political educational social and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination -
19th Amendment
Woman get the right to vote -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
The Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. -
Executive Order 9981
It abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the United States Armed Forces. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation of schools is unconstitutional and overturned the previous ruling of Plessy vs. Fergusons "separate but equal" -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white personThis launches the montgomery bus boycott where people are boycotting the buses -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference played a major role in organizing the nonviolent protests Martin Luther King Jr.,and Fred L. Shuttleswort were members -
Little Rock 9
The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders were created to try and desegregate public transportation throughout the south so they would ride in the buses to to protest the segregation -
March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech
People walk to the Lincoln Memorial and listen to Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his I have a Dreamspeech where he tells the world that we are all equal and he believes that one day we all will be treated equally. -
24th Amendment
The 24th amendment was put into place to end the poll tax. Before this amendment many blacks couldn't afford to vote. The 24th amendment made it easier for blacks to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signed the civil rights act this Act eliminated discrimination of any kind. Title VII also established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Test and other requirements for blacks to vote was eliminated -
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court
Thurgood marshall was the first african american supreme court justice he served 2 years -
MLK assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of his hotel room in Tennessee James Earl Ray was later found guilty of the crime.
