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Poll Taxes
Poll taxes were taxes established after the passing of the 15th Amendment. These were used to continue discrimination and the oppression of minority groups, in particular the newly freed African American community. -
The 13th Amendment
This Amendment was created in the results of the Civil War. It was used to aboloish slavery in the United States and to abolish forced slavery, except in cases of criminal punishment. -
The 14th Amendment
This Amendment followed the 13th Amendment. There are three important clauses to this amendment; Citizenship Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. -
The 15th Amendment
This was the last Amendment of a group that passed after the Civil War. It guaranteed that no one would be denied the right to vote based on their skin color, race, or if you were previously entered into slavery. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This case is very important to the history of American Civil Rights. It led to the idea of being "separate but equal" facilities. The Supreme Court of the United States of America said that segregation was legal. This provided a huge wall for Civil Rights, this was a setback for their efforts as minorities were legally allowed to be cut off from the rest of the country. -
Brown vs Board of Education
A court case in where Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned. The court found that separate schools were naturally unequal and the "separate but equal" shield was taken down. As a conclusion, all segregation became unconstitutional and Civil Rights found victory as minority groups were granted fair access to areas formally "white-only". -
Emmett Till was murdered
He was an African-American 14 year old who was murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman named, Carolyn Bryant. Nights after he flirted with her, Carolyn's husband (Roy) and his half-brother (J.W. Milam) went to Till's great-uncle's house , then took him to a barn. There the men beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him, and disposing his body into the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
After a long day of work, Rosa stepped on a bus for a ride home. The bus eventually became full and the closest seats were suppose to be given up to the whites, but Rosa was not willing to give up her seat. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. The organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. It was lead by Martin Luther King. -
Crisis at Central High School and the "Little Rock Nine"
Little Rock Central High School is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States. Nine African-American students attended the formerly all-white Central High School this was the most prominent national example of the implementation of the May 17, 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
In this city, four African American college students from a North Carolina all-black college, went to get served in an all-white restaurant at Woolworth’s. They asked for food, and was refused service and asked to leave. Food was thrown on them.
This action was directed by Blair Jnr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil sparked off the so-called sit-ins. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) is founded
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. and others had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). -
John F. Kennedy becomes President
On Nov. 8, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency in one of the closest and most contentious elections in American history. -
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were conceived by the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961 as the next step in protesting the segregated businesses of the southern states, encouraged by the success that the previous year's sit-in movement had in getting whites-only lunch counters to serve African Americans. They were associated with the formerly known hippies. -
MLK arrested jailed in birmingham, Alabama "letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King arrested and jailed during a desegregation campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, he wrote his famous "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." Written on scraps of available paper, King tried to answer critics who accused him of being a troublemaker. He explained why people had "a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A legislation signed by President Lyndon B Johnson. It helped end discrimination while voting and end all segregation in public facilities. -
MLK assassination
He was assassinated in memphis, TN. He was shot.
