Civil Rights Timeline

  • 13 Amendment

    13 Amendment

    Made slavery illegal in the United States.
  • 14th Amendment

    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

    15th Amendment

    Protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    It was a case that initiated the “Separate but equal” facilities, and this leads to jim crow laws.
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    The purpose was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Equal rights for women, and the right to vote.
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    An amendment proposed to give equal rights to everyone including all sexes.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Court established that segregated schools are illegal.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Boycott inspired by Rosa Parks because she refused to move to the back of the bus when a white told her to move. People started boycotting by not using the busses at all.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    When 9 African Americans got enrolled in a white school and were discriminated against.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    An act to provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Civil rights activists rode buses into segregated states.
  • March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech

    March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech

    Speech in Washington about persuading equal rights for everyone despite race.
  • March from Selma, Alabama

    March from Selma, Alabama

    Protest march promoting nonviolent protesting and was a desire of African Americans to exercise their own constitutional right to vote.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    It made it easier for minorities to vote like African Americans and non-English speakers.
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    Founded by Bobby Seale, was made to monitor police behaivor and put an end to police brutality
  • MLK assassinated

    MLK assassinated

    Martin Luther King was Assaninated because people were against his protesting for equal rights for blacks so they shot him in Memphis.
  • American Indian Movement (AIM)

    American Indian Movement (AIM)

    Help issues of poverty and police brutality against American Indians.