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13th amendment-yellow
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. Brought a new era to the United states and what they stood for. -
14th amendment-yellow
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-yellow
prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.", thus expanding rights of people of color -
Tuskegee institute created-red
One of the first all blac colleges that offered college to people of color which expanded the rights and oppurtunities for blacks -
plessy v Ferguson-yellow
resident of New Orleans, deliberately violated Louisiana's Separate Car Act of 1890, which required "equal, but separate" train car accommodations for white and non-white passengers. Upon being charged, Plessy's lawyers defended him by arguing that the law was unconstitutional. In May 1896, the Supreme Court issued a 7–1 decision against Plessy, which furthered us stance with race at that point in time -
NAACP created- blue
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. -
19th amendment-yellow
prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, which furthered the equal rights movement gender wise -
ERA proposed-yellow
The Equal Rights Amendment was or is 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-yellow
It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the services -
Brown v Board of Education-yellow
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott-red
when rosa parks took a whjite mans seat on the bus she was kicked off and arrested. Then Blacks had enough and most of them completely refused to ride the bus causing a huge damage to the economy. -
March From Selma, Alabama-red
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957-yellow
first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Voting Rights Act of 1958-yellow
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Which furthered the pursuit of desegregation. -
Freedom Riders-blue
Civil rights activists who would drive buses for blacks who refused to ride busses in montgomery boycott which helped to keep montgomery bus boycott going and show they weren’t messing around -
Civil Rights Act of 1964-yellow
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. -
24th Amendment-yellow
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax, which made elections more fair and equal -
Black Panthers-blue
The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California -
Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court-blue
Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court. President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11. -
MLK Assassinated-blue
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 by James Earl Ray. which was a big hgiit to bvlack cuturer as they were now left without a leader.