Civil rights

Civil Rights Timeline

By flashjordan
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    Civil Rights Years

  • Slavery Trade Banned

    Slavery Trade Banned
    People were no longer able to utilize the slave trade.
    South depended on cheap slave labor

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Prohibited slaves north of 36° latitude
    There had to be an equal amount of slave states and free states.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention
    Women's rights convention
    First major assembly of women advocating for their rights.
    Addressed voting, job equality, education equality, divorcing, and property rules.
    Stanton/Mott

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Stirred up unrest in the United States
    One of most influential novels in history
    Advocated abolition of slavery
    Was about the evils of slavery

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford
    1. Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
    2. slaves were not U.S. citizens so could not bring suits in federal court; they were property

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Freed all slaves under Abraham Lincoln
    Speech was delivered at Gettysburg
    Although it freed slaves, there was still much racism.

  • 13th Amendment

    Banned all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    1. Andrew Johnson vetoed; Congress overrode veto
    2. Gave government power to intervene when states restricted black rights
    3. was in response to the Black Codes

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship to all freed slaves Violations of 14th amendment
    1. Single-sex public nursing schools
    2. Laws that consider males adults at twenty-one years but females at eighteens
    3. Laws that allow women but not men to receive alimony

  • 15th Amendment

    Right to vote regardless of race or color (not women)

  • Civil Rights Cases

    Civil Rights Cases
    Five separate cases regarding the Civil Rights Act and its interpretation
    Reinforced Jim Crow system

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Racial segregation on public trains
    "Separate but equal"

  • 19th Amendment

    Prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex

  • Korematsu v. US

    Korematsu v. US
    Felt that Asians were a threat during WWII because of the United States involvement with Japan
    Very discriminatory
    Racial profiling

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    1. Found Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional
    2. Found under equal protection clause
    3. Integrated schools

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    “I have a dream” speech
    Very influential in Civil Rights Movement

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. Outlawed discrimination in voting
    2. Banned discrimination in public accommodations
    3. Desegregation of public schools and facilities
    4. Prohibited discrimination in employment

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S