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The 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment ends 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. -
The 15th Amendment
Gave African American Males the right to vote. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
A case in the Supreme court, that by a 7 to 1 majority advanced the very controversial separate but equal doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. -
NAACP Created
The national Association for the advancement of colored people was to security political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to illuminate race based discrimination and ensure the health and well being of all African Americans. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens based off the account of sex -
Executive Order 9981
Executive order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S Truman. It abolish discrimination “on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin” in the United States Armed Forces. -
Brown Vs. Board Of Education
Brown versus board of education was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justice ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. The case was one of the cornerstones of civil rights movements everywhere, and helped establish the president that “separate but equal” education and other services were not equal at all. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery quit bus boycott it was a political and social protest against the policy of racial segregation of public transportation. The boycott lasted 13 months and ended with the US supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine was a group of nine African-American students that attended Little Rock high school. Their enrollment was followed by the little rock crisis, where the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The civil rights act of 1957 established the civil rights division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that tried to deny another citizen's right to vote. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment ended poll tax. -
Civil Acts of 1964
The civil rights act of 1964 was a law that made racial discrimination against groups in hotels, restaurants, etc, illegal. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the US that prohibits racial discrimination while voting. -
Black Panthers
A black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by whites -
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the supreme court
The NAACP chief counsel from 1938 to 1961, he argued 32 cases before the US Supreme Court, successfully challenging racial segregation, and most notably in public education. He won 129 of the cases. -
MLK Assassinated
His assassination lead to anger among black Americans everywhere, as well as a time of national morning that helped provide the way of the equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislation achievement of the civil rights era. -
ERA proposed
The equal rights amendment is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for American citizens regardless of gender. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to The Supreme Court
Reagan, who had said during his 1980 presidential campaign he would appoint the first woman to the court, announced that he would dominate O’Connor as an associate justice of the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Potter Stewart. -
Sonia Sotomayor appointed to the Supreme Court
First Puerto Rican woman to serve on the High Court, she decided to focus on schools appointed and the supreme court, judge for the US Court of Appeal, and was appointed by Barack Obama.
