Civil War laws and court cases

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclemation was a declartion of black freedom.
  • The first Jim Crow law was passed

    The first Jim Crow law was passed
    First Jim crow law passed
  • Homer Plessy is Arrested

    homer Plessy sat in a white box car while traveling. he was told to move to a jim crow box car and refused. the train stopped at the nearest station and he was arrested.
  • Plessy is Found Quilty

    Plessy is Found Quilty
    homer Plessy was not given an imediate trial. he finally got one 3 years after his arrest. The judge found him guilty. After this case the U.S sent out a "Seperate but Equal" law.
  • The Black Community Crys In Outrage

    The Black Community Crys In Outrage
    Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclemation blacks are still not equal.
  • First Jim crow law was abolished

    The first Jim crow law abolished was that there was no segregation in public schools
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott was founded
  • Jim Crow laws abolished

    Jim Crow laws abolished
    The end of the 1960's there were no more Jim crow laws in effect