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Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the Confederacy. Abraham Lincon believe that every man should be born equal and treated equally therfore slaves had to be free and slavery had to be abolished. -
13th Amendment passes
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. It read that nowhere in the United States or within its jurisdiction were able to keep slaves. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act passes by one vote. This act proclaims that all persons born in the United States are U.S citizens without regard to race or color. -
14th Amendemnt
"No state shall make or enforce any law which denies to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Basically meaning everyone is born equal and should be treated equal. -
National Women Suffrage Association is founded
The NWSA was formed to persue equal rights for women, including the right to vote. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment read that no state in the United States should deny a man to vote because of their color, race or whether they had been fornally in slavery before. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy V. Ferguson is a US supreme court decision deciding the law about racial segregation in public facilities like, Toilet, waiting rooms etc... -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The NAACP is found in NYC for the purpose of improving the conditions of colored people. -
World War I
First world war takes away some of the human rights interest. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment granted womens to vote. -
The Great Depression
The laws that were added after the great depression focuses on the relief of the unemployed and poor. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
It was a case held in the Supreme Court declaring state laws establishing speration of white's and colored's public school. -
Emmett Till kidnapping
Fourteen year old African American, Emmett Till was kidnapped while visiting his family in Mississippi. He was brutally beaten, shot and was dumped into the Tallahatchie River. The killers were aquited by a fully white jury and then were bragging about the killing afterwards in a national magazine. This brought the inequality between white and black people in certain states into the media spotlight and kickstarted the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Park backseat on the bus
Rosa Park refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored" section of the bus to a white passenger. It launched a bus boycott. -
"I have a dream" speech
1963, Martin Luther King JR gave his most famous speech. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It is one of the largest rallies in human rights history and makes Martin Luther King JR a household name around the world. -
Civil RIghts Act 1964
The Civil RIghts Act prohibited any discrimination because of race, color, religion or national origin. The Jim Crow laws in the South were abolished.
