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13th amendment
It abolished slavery ( African Americans) -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.(african american,Chicanos) -
15th Amendment
it made it so that the right to vote could not be denied because of race ,color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Tuskegee Institute created
Tuskegee university was founded to train african american teachers. (african american) -
Plessy v. Ferguson
made segregation legal ¨separate but equal ¨ (african american) -
NAACP created
was created to help end segregation and to fight for african american rights (african american) -
19th Amendment
made it so that women had the right to vote (woman) -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
it was proposed so that sexes would be equal and would have made it so discrimination of sex was illegal .was defeated (woman) -
Executive Order 9981
president truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the military (integrated units)( African Americans, Native Americans, Chicanos) -
Brown v. Board of Education
Integrated public schools and Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson.(african american) -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
protest in which African Americans refused to ride city bus protesting segregated seating was started by rosa parks and ended in 1956 (african americans) -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
Advance civil rights in a non-violent manner , MLK is an important member of it.(african americans) -
Little rock 9
Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students from entering the high school. President Eisenhower uses the National Guard to protect students' entry into the school. (african americans) -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote (all -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture.(Chicano) -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter and refused to leave to protest racial segregation after being refused service.( african american) -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used non violent tactics(african americans) -
freedom riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. Challenged and protested local laws that ignored
integration.(african americans) -
Cesar Chavez
Cofounder of the National Farm Workers Association and was a Latino American civil rights activist .(Chicano) -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism(african americans)