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1867 Civil Rights Act
1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 grants citizenship, but not the right to vote, to all native-born Americans.
This is hard on Rosaleen becasue she is native american and SHe really wants to vote and have freedom to do so. -
1869 Fifteenth Admendment
Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment giving African American men the right to vote.
This makes Rosaleen mad because they still don't give afican american women the right to vote. -
Lynchings
To sustain the Jim Crow system lynchings and murders became commonplace. Blacks who registered to vote were assassinated and any blacks that fought for their rights in any way were met with a reign of terror. -
Jim Crow (Racial Segregation)
Jim Crow was not simply some nasty piece of legislation that evolved over the. It was a carefully worked out, carefully executed, social system devised by the ruling class. -
1940 Literacy test
A test to make sure that most african americans wont be able to pass. Test made no sense.
This will make it hard for Rosaleen to be able to vote also becasue they are tough test. -
Segregation in Schools
The late 1950s saw the famous Brown vs. Brown case that ruled against segregation in schools. But it would take a lot more than paper legislation to have any effective change. -
Supreme Court Ruling
There had often been struggles through the courts by blacks to end segregation, but before 1954 they had little effect. Now the ruling class realized there had to be change. Throughout Africa and Asia there were huge movements for independence, against military and economic domination by Imperialism. -
Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides
They would enter lunch bars and demand to be served and when they were refused they would literally sit-in!
Then came the Freedom Rides where black and white students would board buses and travel through the Southern states. These actions were taken to force the integration of buses that had already been passed in law. Many of the freedom riders were beaten and brutalized by racist mobs. But still the Freedom Rides continued. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King evolved as the most important leader of the Civil Rights Movement. His principles of pacifism were the dominant feature of the movement for a long period. But once youth entered the scene of battle it was much harder for him to hold this line. Faced with beatings and bombings, the idea of non-violence somehow did not ring true. -
1965 Violence Towards Blacks.
1965
More than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers are attacked by law enforcement officers while attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.
Same thing happened to Rosaleen when her and Lily were walking to register to vote. She got beaten for not apologizing when she pourd a drink on a white mans shoes.