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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was on March 1, 1820. In U.S. history, measure worked out between the North and the South and passed by the U.S. Congress that allowed for admission of Missouri as the 24th state. It marked the beginning of the prolonged sectional conflict over the extension of slavery that led to the American Civil War. The territory of Missouri first applied for statehood in 1817, -
Fifteenth Amendment
The House Joint Resolution proposing the 15th amendment to the Constitution, December 7, 1868. The 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. Specifically, it confirms the right to vote and lists conditions that are illegal to deny another person the right to vote. Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave. -
Plessey v. Ferguson
On June 7, 1892, a thirty year old colored shoe maker named Homer Plessey was jailed for sitting in the “White” car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was in fact seven-eighths white and one-eighth black which by Louisiana law meant he was treated as an African-American and required to sit in the car designated for "colored" patrons. When Plessy lost his initial court case, his appeal made it to the US Supreme Court. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA and die on October 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT. He was married to Rachel Issum on February 10, 1946. Robinson has many achievements that are engineered the integration of professional sports in America by breaking the color barrier in baseball. One of his quotes are “Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants to quit when you’re ahead. “ -
Rosa Park's bus boycott
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks a 42 African American who boarded Montgomery City bus to go home from work. She sat in the middle of the bus where it separated the white from blacks. Just then all the seas were full and then a white man got on the bus and the bus driver insisted that all the four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so the man could sit there. Rosa Park’s who was an NAACP didn’t give up her seat. -
Little Rock Nine
In 1954 the Little Rock school board announced its intention of complying with the federal constitution requirements. The requirements were to have blacks and whites in the same school. In the south, the school administrators didn’t think there would be a big problem with the nine black students who were supposed to go to school at Little Rocks Central High on September 3, 1957. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
The sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb in the church in 1963, killing four girls. The bomb exploded mid-morning during Sunday church services. The four girls names where Carol Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesler 14, Addie Collins 14, and Denise McNair 12, and more twenty were injured. The bomber had hidden under a set of cinder block steps on the side of the church, he tunneled under the basement, put a bundle of dynamite in the girls bathroom. -
I Have a Dream speech
"I Have a Dream" was a seventeen minute speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, that he called for an end to racism in the United States. The speech was delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, it was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
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Loving V. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia started on April 10, 1967 and ended on June 12, 1967.Loving v. Virginia was a case that presents a constitutional question never addressed by the court, that was whether or not to prevent marriages between people of racial classifications violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. For the reasons which seem to reflect us the central meaning of those constitutional commands, we know that these statutes cannot stand consistently with the F
