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hannah peggs
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13th amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the united states. And was a large cause of the civil war -
14th amendment
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th amendment
the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. This was huge in this time. -
plessy v. ferguson
by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. -
jack johnson
Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1878. In 1908 he became the first African-American to win the world heavyweight crown when he knocked out the reigning champ, Tommy Burns. -
NCAAP was created
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed to promote use of the courts to restore the legal rights of African-Americans. -
brown v. B.O.E
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
rosa parks arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. -
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Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King wanted people to protest about Rosa parks and so people went a whole year without riding a bus. people walked to school everyday. -
james meredith + univ of mississippi
After troops took control, Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's admission is regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights in the United States. -
i have a dream speech
a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
civil rights act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
death of Malcolm X
advocated the complete separation of African Americans from whites. He proposed that African Americans should return to Africa and that, in the interim, a separate country for black people in America should be created. -
Death of MLK
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civil rights act of 1968
popularly known as the Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
Seth fedele
