Civil Rights Timeline

By Drewg17

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    Passed by congress which ended slavery and made it a crime

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Stated that people who were born in America are legally rightful citizens.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The right of every citizens ability to vote cannot be denied by any state due to race.

  • Tuskegee Institute Created

    Tuskegee Institute Created
    Currently, it is a private campus that has so history underneath its roots.

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    Made a doctrine called "Separate But Equal" which resulted in equal segregation across the nation.

  • NAACP Created

    NAACP Created
    Stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which helped support certain races.

  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    Deny's the right for states to prohibit the ability to vote on the basis of sex.

  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981
    Abolished discrimination against race, sex, and religion.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    A social and political protest against racial discrimination.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    A group of nine African American students who enrolled in a segregated school.

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    Greensboro Sit-Ins
    Civil Rights protest involving young African Americans refusing to leave after being denied food.

  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement
    Restated the fact that Mexican Americans should have equal rights.

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Civil rights activists who rode the interstate buses down into the southern part of the United States.

  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez
    Was an American civil rights activist who was a labor leader and community organizer.

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    Denied Congress and the states the ability to issue poll taxes on citizens

  • Selma to Montgomery

    Selma to Montgomery
    Three marches that were almost 54 miles long and they had to fight to carry out their protest.

  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers
    Was a revolutionary political organization that protected African Americans from self-defense.

  • MLK Assassination

    MLK Assassination
    He was an American Christian minister who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

  • American Indian Movement

    American Indian Movement
    Originally formed to address the systematic problems with police brutality of Native Americans.

  • Equal Rights Amendment

    Equal Rights Amendment
    Designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens regardless of sex.