Racial Inequality

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  • Slavery

    Slavery was the beginning of racial inequality, slavery started in 1619.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    The Jim Crow era started in the 1950s, It was the era after slavery was abolished. Jim crow laws were 118 years ago.

  • Rosa Parks Jailed

    Rosa Parks put in jail for not giving her seat in the front to a white man. (Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus)

  • The sit-ins began.

    4 college students do sit-ins in a restaurant in North Carolina

  • Start of the 'Freedom Rides'

    Washington D.C formed the first Freedom ride.

  • James Meredith

    The president at the time, John.F. Kennedy, sent federal troops to UMISS to stop the riots. James Meredith the first black man to attend the university.

  • I have a dream speech

    Martin Luther King Jr shared his most famous speech in history, The I have a dream speech to hundreds of thousands of people at the march on Washington D.C.

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    President Lyndon B Johnson signs the civil rights act of 1964 into law.

  • Malcolm X Assassinated

    Black religious leader, Malcolm x, assassinated during a rally.

  • Police attack Civil Rights marchers

    During a walk from selma to Montgomery to protest black voter suppression, local police brutally attack protesters.

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    President Lyndon B. Johnson sighs the voting rights act of 1965

  • MLK Jr. assassinated in Tennessee by James Earl Ray

    Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Tennessee by James Earl Ray

  • Civil Rights of 1968

    President Lyndon B, Johnson signs the civil rights act of 1968 ( Fair Housing Act )

  • James Earl Ray arrested

    James Earl Ray arrested and jailed for the murder of Martin Luther King jr.

  • Civil Right Restoration Act

    Congress passes the Civil Right Restoration Act