Civil Rights Timline

By AJBIBBY
  • Scott vs. Stanford

    It says that if your black in the United States then you could not be a citizen. Black people couldn’t have jobs.
  • reconstruction efforts

    Federal troops planted to enforce the 23rd amendment. Reconstruction efforts started. This started after the Civil War were they started to try and rebuild the United States to were it was before the Civil War.
  • The Reconstruction Amendments

    13th A- It abolished slavery in the United State 14th A- Anyone that is born in the United States are citizens of the United States 15th A- whatever race or religion you can vote.
  • reconstruction efforts

    Federal troops planted to enforce the 23rd amendment. Hayes ended reconstruction.
  • The Reconstruction Amendments

    13th A- It abloshished slavery in the United State 14th A- Anyone that is born in the United States are citizens of the United States 15th A- whatever race or religion you can vote.
  • Jim Crow Era

    Jim Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s. Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.
  • 19th amendment

    It allowed for all race and religions to vote but it didn't specific say how to states were allowing other races and religions to vote so they said that if your grandpa couldn't vote them you couldn't vote.
  • Scottsboro Boys

    9 African-Americans were accused of raping 2 white women on a train in 1931 and 8-9 were killed expect for one that wasn't killed or killed himself. The trials ended in 1937.
  • Scottsboro Boys

    9 African-Americans were accused of raping 2 white women on a train in 1931 and 8-9 were killed expect for one that wasn't killed or killed himself. The trials ended in 1937.
  • George Stinney case

    A boy that was convitected of raping a white girl and was killed at the young age of 14.
  • brown vs. board

    This court case made schools not segregated in America. This means that colored and white children go to school together. But this caused other problems were the government had to get involved.
  • Jim Crow Era

    im Crow laws were laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation across the South from the 1870s through the 1960s.Under the Jim Crow system, “whites only” and “colored” signs proliferated across the South at water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools.
  • James Meredith enrolls in Ole Miss University

    He was the first black man that enrolled at Ole Miss in Mississippi and he was shot at by a sniper because of his race.
  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    This right says that all men are created equally no matter what race or religion. This means that people can't separate anything or anybody with color on there skin or the religion that they follow
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This act got rid of the literacy tests before people had to vote so now people can vote without any tests.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    You now have to sell a house if they pay the right price that they want for it you will have to give them there money.
  • California v. Bakke

    This court case allowed people of race to go to the same colleges as white people. This significance help the civil rights movement because now the schools are not being segregated at the University level.
  • Gratz v. Bollinger

    The schools can't treat people with race as a diverse class and cannot separate schools in black and white.
  • Meredith v. Jefferson Co Board

    It allows for people to volunteer at schools and help with there problems that they don't see. And you can't say that you cannot volunteer because of your race or religion it allows for everyone to.
  • Shelby County v. Holder

    It made sure that everyones vote counted and that no ones vote wouldn't be counted and that everyone had there say in the voting of laws and government officials.