Jim Crow Timeline

By Pupies1332@gmaill.com

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Ended slavery.

  • Congress Passing the Civil Rights Act

    Passed by the House and Senate also known as the "Jim Crow" Act

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

  • 14th Amendment

    People were granted citizenship which included former slaves

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 Was Declared Unconstitutional

    Supreme Court banished the law that forbided discrimination

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

  • The NAACP was founded

    Stopped lynching and the discrimination against blacks.

  • Gaines v. Canada

    Permitted to give blacks education as well as whites

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Declared states have separate schools for blacks and whites

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S Supreme Court ruling on public buses was unconstitutional.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. gives "I Have a Dream" speech

    Gives freedom of discrimination against blacks

  • Voting Rights Act was Passed

    Prevents discrimination among voting/voters

  • Thurgood Marshall was sworn into the Supreme Court

    Appointed to the court by John F. Kennedy, making him the first black on the Supreme Court

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated

    Martin Luther King was shot outside a hotel.