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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
The government cannot discriminate against "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregations laws. Homer plessy refused to sit in the back of the train. Caused the "seprate but equal" -
NAACP created
The national advancement of colored people. Is a civil rights organization -
19th Amendment
Denying the right to vote based on gender. -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
Alice Paul first introduced the ERA to Congress in 1923. Paul would work for the passage for a long time. -
Executive Order 9981
Denied discrimination based on race in the military. It led to the desegregation of the military. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A protest against racial segregation in montgomery. -
Little Rock 9
9 african americans tried to go to school students were preventing them from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
First federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode busses in to southern segregated U.S. -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
The letter Dr king sends from prison defending the strategy of nonviolent protest. -
March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech
Advocated for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Also the famous speech from Martin Luther King jr. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits poll tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Black Panthers
Freedom for african americans. -
MLK assassinated
April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN. He said in several speeches he will never see a day past 39 and he died while he was 39. -
Sonia Sotomayor appointed to the Supreme Court
She was the first Hispanic and Latino Justice.
