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slavery begins
slavery begin where blacks were tooken form diffremt parts of the country and brought to the new world by whites -
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plessy vs ferguson
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Civil war begins so Slavery ends
President Abraham Licnoln was the sixteenth president of the united states. he played a big part in ther civil war because the us army and himself fought against the confederate states; the united states did win the civil war and all slavews were free -
Jim Crow laws (1877-1892)
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforced by racial segergation in the southern united states an dmaybe in sone nothern states .After reconstruction was stopped by President Rutherford b. Hayes -
what are Jim Crow laws
The name Jim Crow Laws was ironicaly a white mans imitation of a dancing and singing white stable man
Jim Crow laws also discriminated public accomidation , marriage and family, and public transportatation. -
homer plessy
On Tuesday June 7 , 2015 homer plessy decided to challenge the public transportartion laws (Rail Laws ) by not giving up his seat to a white man but he was of the afriican american decent so he was suppose to give up he should have been on the back of the train -
Plessy vs ferguson
Plessy took his case all the way to the supreme court where he lost his case. Which made jim crow laws be able to come to full efect . this was the road to our civil rights -
The road to civil rights
The civil war is now over and now we have to fight for equqlity . becasue jim crow laws were now in full effect which segergated and were prejudice against colored people -
Brown vs Board of Education
in the mid 1930 the national association of the advancement of colored people challenged the education jim crow law.
Parents of Linda brown hired African American lawyer Thurgood marshall to repersent her case -
Walking for freedom the montgomery bus boycott
On December 1, 1955 Four days be for the montgomery bus boycoot Rosa Louise McCauley Parks boared a bus after work she was very tired and sat down in the middle row. When a white man aboared the bus she refused to give up her seat to him she was arrested her colleque 0of the Nation assoctian of the advacement of colored people posted her bail he wanted to make sure not another colored person would be treated that way she asked Reverand Martin luther king to lead the march -
Selma"s Bloddy Sunday
600 people marched from selma to montgomery ,alabama but not all 600 made it back it was called a demonstration. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday. they beat them ,killed some ,and injured a lot of them this was one of the most historical and horrible moments in our civil rights history
