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13th Amendment
That we need to abolish slavery -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside -
15th Amendment
That everyone should have a right to vote -
plessey v. Ferguson
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality -
Truman desegregates the Military
It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown v. Board of Ed
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks / Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
Little Rock Crisis
The 9 kids that enrolled in high school as black African American kids into in a white school and they were very scared. -
Sit in Movement
Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and organize sit-ins at counters throughout the South.and they did it show that they are not violent and what they think they are. -
James Meredith and Ole MIss
a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi -
Letter From a Birmingham Jail
This is where they arrested people in the march and where Mr King wrote a letter from jail. -
March on Washington / "I Have a Dream" Speech
This is where the march started and when they went Washington and Martin Luther King made a speech that the world will be one day equal. -
Freedom Summer
This shows the first summer when they actually felt equal with everyone else knowing that they can do the same things as the whites. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Selma March
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent -
Voting Rights Act
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
