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13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. -
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
Prohibits the federal government from limiting a persons right to vote. -
Tuskegee Institute Created
A private historically black college is opened for black students. It was established by Lewis Adams and Booker T. Washington. The campus is designated as the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site by the National Park Service. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Landmark decision of the US supreme court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities, as long as the facilities were in equal quality. -
NAACP Created
National association for the advancement of colored people. The main leaders of the civil rights movement. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits the united states government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. -
Equal Rights Amendment Proposed
Designed to guarantee equal rights for all African Americans. -
Executive Order 9981
Abolishes discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. -
Brown v Board of Education
Was a landmark case in 1954 that ruled that the segregation of students at school was deemed un constitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a civil rights protest against segregation in Montgomery Alabama and also it represented the rest of the United States as well. -
Little Rock 9
The Little rock nine, was a group of nine African American students who attended Little rock central high school. Their enrollment was later followed by a big issue called the Little rock crisis, where the national guard had to escort the students into the school after the Governor of Arkansas wouldn't allow them in. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Little rock nine, was a group of nine African American students who attended Little rock central high school. Their enrollment was later followed by a big issue called the Little rock crisis, where the national guard had to escort the students into the school after the Governor of Arkansas wouldn't allow them in. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Formed
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
Greensboro NC Sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were made to upset the workforce so that their demands could be reasoned. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960's. They wanted to work towards revolution to end segregation of students everywhere. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia -
Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano civil rights movement or El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican-American civil rights movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment -
Dr. King's Letter From Birmingham Jail
This letter was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, while he was in prison. It was a message to his followers. The letter defends the strategy of non violent protest. -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader, community organizer, and Latino American civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later merged to become the United Farm Workers union.
