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13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment officially made it illegal to own slaves in America thus ending slavery for good -
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
Allowed colored men to vote which was a step forward to desegregating the whole country -
Tuskegee Institute created
Created by Booker T. Washington with the purpose of educating colored people so that they may be seen as equals in the future -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Allowed the separation of coloreds from whites because they were still technically equal -
NAACP Created
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people was created to try and end segregation in America -
19th Amendment
Gave all people the right to vote regardless of race and gender -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Proposed
The equal right amendment was first proposed by the National Women’s political party to end segregation by gender and allow women to be completely equal -
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Cesar Chavez
A civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers -
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Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
The part of the Civil Rights movement designed to gain more rights of Mexican Americans -
Executive Order 9981
This executive order called for the desegregation of all military armed forces in America -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme court case that stated the segregation of schools under “separate, but equal” actually wasn’t equal at all and thus they ended segregation in schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In order to protest segregated seating on buses a group of African Americans refused to ride city buses as a form of peaceful protest -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
The SCLC was formed to bring an end to black segregation and during the Vietnam war they peacefully protested to speak out against it -
Little Rock 9
Formed to fight the denial of black enrollment in Little Rock Central High and resulted in the Little Rock Crisis -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Signed by Eisenhower and established the civil rights division of the supreme court -
Greensboro, NC Sit-Ins
A group of African American students sat in a segregated part of a diner and refused to leave even after they were denied service -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
Formed to fully organize student involvement in the Civil Rights movements of the 1960’s -
Freedom Riders
Groups of civil rights activists that rode public buses into the south in order to desegregate public buses -
Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail
A letter written that defends civil rights activists who use non-violent methods of protest -
March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Speech
A speech given by Martin Luther King JR. where he spoke out against racism and segregation against all colored people in the USA -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended the national segregation of public places such as schools, buses, parks, restaurants, etc
