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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment made slavery unlawful expect in prisons.
It was passed after the civil which was fought between the North and the South to end slavery. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment gave every citizen a right top vote regardless of their skin color or race however this excluded women. It also abolished the 3/5 slavery system where an African American's vote only counted for 3/5th of a vote. -
Tuskegee Institute Created
The Tuskegee Institute was an African American school in the city of Tuskegee and helped start an institution to help educate African kids irrespective of the segregation they experienced. -
Plessy vs Furguson
The verdict for this case separated blacks and whites while keeping the facilities equal. The verdict was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Ovington, Moorefield Storey and Ida B. Wells. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment stated that the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. This meant that women could now vote. -
Executive Order 9981
This executive order signed by President Harry S. Truman provided equal opportunity for everyone in the military irrespective of their race. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civils rights protest by African Americans who refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregates seating. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement in the United States. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1957
Commissions on civil rights to investigate civil rights violations and also establish a Civil Rights Division within the DOJ. -
Chicano Movement
Chicano civil rights movement for extending the Mexican American goal of reaching empowerment. -
Freedom Riders
Civil Rights activists who rode an interstate bus into the south to challenge Morgan vs Virginia. The passenger sin the bus were Freedom Riders, among the first of more than 400 volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision that declared segregates facilities for interstate passengers illegal. -
Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
The letter stated that people should have moral responsibilities and take direct actions rather than wait for justice in courts. -
March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Speech
Speech by MLK in Washington D.C. about economic rights to and end to racism. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment granted citizens the rights to vote in any primary or other election. It prohibits both the Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of taxes. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination on bases races, color, religion, sex, or country of origin and forbids hiring, promoting, or firing on bases of discrimination. -
Voting Rights of 1965
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and was an act that outlawed discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Black Panthers
Black Panther party for self defense ~ a revolutionary organization with the ideology of black nationalism, socialism, and armed self defense. -
American Indian Movement
Movement found to improve recently urbanized Native Americans and bring restoration to tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. -
MLK Assassinated
Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to the Supreme Court
Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic member of the United States Supreme Court.
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