Desegregation timeline 1865 to 1968

By ethanm
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    President Lincon freed 3,000,000 slaves by an executive order.
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    Desegregation Timeline 1865 to 1968

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment

    U.S. Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment aboishing slavery.
  • Civil War ends

    Civil War ends

    The American Civil War ends and abolishes slavery
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment

    The U.S. Congress passes the Fourteenth Amendment gave former slaves citizenenship rights
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment

    U.S. Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment allowing all citizens to vote no matter their race or color
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    This allowed blacks to use the same public facilities as whites.
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    National Association Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] had their first meeting
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration

    1,500,000 African-Americans move from the South to the North and Midwest
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    Segregation of students is illegal in public schools based on the 14th Amendment
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from a seat for a white man.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The bus boycott started when Rosa Parks was arrested
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    This outlawed racial segregation in schools.

  • Martin Luther King dies

    Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Fair Housing Act

    Fair Housing Act

    The Fair Housing Act is part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that doesn't allow discrimination when selling or renting housing