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13th amendment
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
14th amendment
This gives anybody born or naturalized in the USA can become a citizen -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This court decision made public facilities equal in quality for both races if they were going to be seperated -
Truman desegregated the military
It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed forces. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This court decision made it so that black people and white people dont have to go to separate schools. -
Rosa Parks / Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks wanted to sit on the front of the bus because her feet hurt, but then she got told to move to the back, but she said "no, my feet hurt" Then the police came and after that Montgomery boycotted the buses. -
Little Rock Crisis
Nine African American Students enrolled in a high school which was an all white school, but the governor didn't let them. So the Supreme court ruled against it. -
Sit-in Movement
Students in North Carolina came to a restaurant and sat at the white people part of it. They wouldn't leave until they were served. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme -
james meredith and ole miss
James Meredith, an African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Chaos soon broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen -
letter from a Birmingham jail
This letter defends the strategy of non violent resistance to racism. -
March on Washington / "I Have a Dream" Speach
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced -
Freedom Summer
The Voter drive was not being fair to African americans -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Selma March
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. In March of that year, in an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery -
voting rights act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.