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13th amendment
Formally abolished slavery in the United States. -
14th Amendment/Plessy vs. Ferguson
Granted citizenship to "all persons born or natruralized in the United States; which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment/ Brown vs. B.O.E
African American men get the right to vote. -
Rosa Parks
African American civil rights activist -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery. -
James Meredith and University of Mississippi
The first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
"I Have a Dream Speech"
Calls for the end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
a landmark piece of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Death of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was expected to blame Nation of Islam members for fire bombing his home. Following his break with the Nation of Islam, and his public criticisms of its leader, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X received death threats from Black Muslims. -
Death of Martin Luther King
James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone … by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin."
