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13th Amendment - African Americans
Slavery and involuntary servitude was abolished. -
14th Amendment - African Americans
This amendment ensures the rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment is one of the most used amendments in court to date. -
15th Amendment - African Americans
Allowed colored people to vote in elections. -
Tuskegee Institute created - African Americans
Booker T Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881 to train African-Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of his race. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson - African Americans
Said that racial segregation was constitutional as long as facilities were equal in quality. The phrase “separate but not equal” was key. -
NAACP created - African Americans
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States. A bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans -
19th Amendment - Women
Said that women are allowed to vote in national elections. -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed - Women
The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
Executive Order 9981 - African Americans
Executive Order by Truman that abolished discrimination and segregation in the military. Dissegregated the military. -
Brown v. Board of Education - African Americans
Ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional, even if the schools are equal in quality. Led to public schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott - African Americans
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 - African Americans
This act outlawed segregation in public areas and allowed the federal government to fight black disfranchisement. The EEOC was created as a result to prevent discrimination in the workplace. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed - African Americans
The SCLC was founded as a direct result of the American Civil Rights Movement and was designed to promote the movement's goals of social equality. Included the bus boycott. -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) - Chicanos
A movement extending Mexican-American civil rights with the goal of restoring land, gaining more rights for farm workers, and receiving better education. -
Cesar Chavez(1948-1993) - Chicanos
Cesar Chaves was a Mexican American union leader and labor organizer who founded the National Farm Workers Association. He created the United Farm Workers. -
24th Amendment - African Americans
Prohibited any poll tax in any election for federal officials. -
Black Panthers - African Americans
Expressed how African Americans wanted better education, exemption from military service, to end police brutality, and freedom. -
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court - African Americans
The first African American Supreme Court Justice. He played a big role in ending legal segregation in the Brown v. Board case. -
American Indian Movement (AIM) - Native Americans
AIM protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. -
Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to the Supreme Court - Women
O’Connor was the first woman to serve in the Supreme Court from 1981-2006.
