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14th Amendment
Fourteen Amendment to the Constitution is ratified. defining citizenship individuals born or naturalized in the US are American citizens, including those born slaves. This nullifies the Dred Scot case which had ruled that blacks were not citizens. -
ScottsboBoysro
Nine black youngs are indicted in Scottsboro Alabama on charges of having raped two white women. Although the evidence was slim the southern jury sentenced them to death. The surpreme court overturns their convictions twice; each time Alabama retries them, finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottboro boys are freed, and 5 of them are sentenced long term prison time. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks League baseball's color barrier when he is signed to the brooklyn dodgers by Branch Rickey. -
Greensboro, NC. Sit in.
Four Black Students from North Carolina Agriculture College, had started a sit- in at segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Althought they were refused service they could still sit there. The event triggered many nonviolent similar protest. 6 months later "Greensboro Four" are served lunch at the same lunch counter. This event triggers a lot of nonviolent protest throughout the south. -
March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs, and Freedom was made up of 250,000 people. The largest demonstration ever seen in the nations capital. Martin Luther KIng delivered his famous speech,"I have a dream." This march buillds up momentum for the civil rights legislation. -
Three Missing?
Three Bodies of civil rights workers are found. Murdered by the KKK, James E Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner had been workking to register black voters in Mississippi. -
Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael was a leader of the SNCC. (Student Nonvilent Coorinating Committee. coins the phrase "blsck power." in a speech in Seattle. Major race riots take place in Newark, and Detriot. -
Harriett Tubman
Harriet Tubman escapes frm slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the undergrouond rail road.
