English Class

By Preacekela
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    Civil War

  • Passage of the 15th Amendment.

    Prohibits denying someone the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

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    World War I

  • Passage of the 19th Amendment

    Can’t deny anyone the right to vote on the basis of sex

  • Billie Holiday records “Strange Fruit”

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    World War II

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    Korean War

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus and gets arrested.

  • Judge orders Arkansas schools to integrate

  • Minniejean Brown expelled from Little Rock High School

  • Ernest Green graduates from Little Rock High School

  • Governor Faubus closed the schools to avoid integration

  • Little Rock Schools reopen - ready to integrate

  • Ruby Bridges

    Became the first African American child to integrate a white southern elementary school

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Passage of the 26th Amendment

    Prohibits using age as a reason to deny someone the right to vote provided that person is at least 18