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13th Amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, with the exception of it being because of a punishment or a crime. -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves, who had been emancipated after the American civil war. -
15th Amendment
Prohibited the federal government in each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's race. -
Plessy V Ferguson
The case began when an African American man, Homer Plessy refused to sit in the car for blacks while riding the train. The US supreme court created and upheld the separate but equal doctrine. -
NAACP Created
founded by a group of African Americans, the mission was to scale the political, educational, social, and economic equality in order to eliminate discrimination. -
19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote and get a say in the government. "The right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states on account for sex. -
Executive Order 9981
Issued by President Truman who abolished all discrimination against people on the bases of race, color, religion or origin in the armed forces: led to the end of segregation in all military services. -
Brown V Board of Education
Racial segregation in public schools was ruled a violation of the 14th amendment to the constitution (denies states from not allowing equal protection of the laws, ruled that schools should be integrated from then. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
political and social protests against racism in the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama. After other African Americans got arrested for not moving, they avoided the bus, harming them financially -
SLCC Founded
an African American civil rights organization that was used to get rid of segregation and promote the goals of social equality. A huge role in the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine
After schools became integrated, nine African American students enrolled in little rock high school, lead to the little rock events, which students were initially prevented from entering. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The first Civil rights legislation posted by the US supreme court. It established the civil rights section of the justice department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
SNCC Founded
Founded by African American people, the SNCC, or student nonviolent coordinating committee was the principal channel to the civil rights movement, which gave younger African Americans more freedom from segregation . -
Chicano Movement
Civil Rights Movement extending the Mexican - American civil rights movement. The mural movement was an art movement where artists would use walls in public to depict Mexican-American people. Demonstrated pride and advocated for political and social equality for Mexican-Americans. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate busses into segregated southern us states to challenge the supreme court and segregation. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of poll taxes, Exemplified that "jim crow laws" were being taken down. Poll taxes aimed at the disintegrated black voted and institute segregation. -
Civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discrimination practices based on race, color, gender, or origin. part of the 14th amendment prohibited application of voter registration, racial segregation in schools, and all public accommodations. -
voting rights act of 1965
signed by president Lyndon b johnson aimed to break legal barriers that prevented African Americans to vote. it outlawed discriminatory voting practices including literacy tests before voting. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Angered many African Americans and created violence within protests. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Founder of the National Women's party, Alice Paul introduced the equal rights amendment to congress. Proposed to the US government that they guarantee equal legal rights for all Americans regardless of sex.
