RCD Unit 4 Task #2: Civil Rights Movement Timeline

By Anthony Ayala

  • Congress passes the 1st Civil Rights Act

    The first Civil Rights Act declared all people born in the United States a citizen, despite their race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.

  • 14th Amendment

    The fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States or naturalized, including formerly enslaved people. It promised "equal protection under the laws."

  • 15th Amendment

    The right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude

  • The 1st Woman's Suffrage Amendment was introduced in congress, but was defeated

    Senator Aaron Sargent of California introduced the Amendment that recognizes that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    This decision stated that racial segregation did not violate the Constitution as long as the areas were separate but equal.

  • NAACP was founded

    The NAACP is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Their mission, "to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice."

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment prohibits the U.S. and the states to deny voting rights to any citizen on account of sex

  • Shelly v. Kraemer

    This supreme court case eliminated racially restricted house covenants.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The decision made in this supreme court case eliminated segregation in public schools which violated the 14th amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This act prohibited the discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. This is considered a trigger that started the civil rights movement

  • NOW(National Organization for Women) was formed

    The largest feminist organization believes in the true equality for all women and equal partnership between the sexes.

  • Green v. County School Board of New Kent County

    This supreme court case talked about two schools that had a "choice" to switch schools. The school system did not correctly integrate both schools which meant there was still segregation between them. The court ruled that they would integrate the schools and take away their "choice."

  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklen Board of Education

    Supreme Court case that corroborated busing programs to speed up the integration of public schools.

  • Proposition 209 California

    Proposition that prohibited state governmental institutions (especially public education, employment, and contracting)from considering sex, race, or ethnicity.