civil rights timeline

By eguerrero19

  • 13th amendment

    abolishing slavery, except as punishment as a crime

  • 14th amendment

    citizen rights and equal protection of the laws.

  • 15th amendment

    the government can't deny a citizen the right to vote.

  • plessy vs ferguson

    it was racial segregation laws

  • NAACP

    it's a civil rights organization

  • 19th amendment

    gave women the right to vote

  • brown vs. board of education

    they made it where they seperate public schools for black and whites to be unconstitutional

  • montgomery bus boycott

    was a protest against police towards segeragation

  • MLK "i have a dream " speech

    he had a dream that racism would end and everyone would be equal.

  • civil rights act

    a law to outlaw race, sex, color, and religion

  • Malcolm x assassination

    Civil rights activists that was killed

  • Voting rights act

    Over came the legal barriers for African Americans to exercise their right to vote

  • Loving v. Virginia

    Law that was made that banned interracial dating

  • MLK jr. assassination

    Civil rights activist that was killed

  • Equal rights amendment

    Civil rights may not be denied on someone’s sex