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thirteenth amendment
it was an amendment used to abolish slavery. -
fourteenth amendment
Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship -
fifteenth amendment
it prohibits the goverment from denying a citizenthe right to vote -
plessy vs ferguson
the decision in the jurispdence of the US requiring racial segregation -
integration of the armed forces
they restore segregation in school systems and military -
brown vs board
it was an establishment of seperate blacks and whites going to schools. -
emett till is murdered
he was kileed from flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks and the montgomery bus boycott
rosa parks refused to give up a seat to a white man she was arrested. -
SCLC founded
it was a civil rights organization -
Little Rock Nine
african american school that prevented students from entering the racialy segregated school. -
greensboro sit-ins
a series of nonviolent protests -
SNCC
it was an organization of the civil rights movement. -
kennedy becomes president
john f kennedy wins the election and becomes pesident -
Freedom Rides
freedom rides they were helping to make a cause for desegregation -
James meredith
he was a inspiring figure in the civil rights movement he was a polotician and writer. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws -
i have a dream speech
i have a dream speech by martin luther king -
Lyndon Baines Johnson
often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963 -
The Twenty-fourth Amendment
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women -
The Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders involve the lynching of James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner by white Mississippians during the American Civil Rights Movement. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S -
The Selma to Montgomery marches
also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965, that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. All three marches were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery where the Alabama capitol is located -
Malcolm X May 19, 1925
born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ), was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
The Black Panther Party
was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
Stokely Carmichael
was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39 -
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
also known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, (Pub.L. 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin