-
13th Amendment
The United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Reconstruction Started
-
Abraham Lincoln: 1865
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was the president who freed the slaves and was president during the Civil War. Five days after the war was over, he was killed by someone who sided with the South. Lincoln was from the North and the South blamed the north for the war. -
Black Codes
During 1865-1866 every Southern state passed Black Codes that restricted the Freedmen, who were free but not yet full citizens. Here is a example: one law said that African American had to written proof of employment. Anyone without such proof could be put to work on a plantation. If the African Americans were forbidden to meet in unsupervised groups or carry a gun. -
Andrew Johnson
After Abraham Lincoln was killed, his vice president took over as president. Andrew Johnson was much different than Lincoln and he was not as interrested in helping the freed slaves who were having a hard time with newly gained freedom. -
Carpetbagger
In United States history, carpetbagger was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. -
14th Amendment
All citizens were to be granted "equal protection of the laws". -
Civil Right Acts 1866
Said that anyone born in the United States is a citizen and that all citizen have the same right as white people. -
KKK DC March
The 1st KKK was organized at Pulaski, Tenn., in May, 1866. Its strange disguises, its silent parades, its midnight rides, its mysterious language and commands, were found to be most effective in playing upon fears and superstitions. The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons. They wanted to scare them because if they caught someone at night like a family, then they would whip or kill the free slaves and so the free slaves would tell there family and everyone would be scare -
Ku Klux Klan
The 1st KKK was organized at Pulaski, Tenn., in May, 1866. Its strange disguises, its silent parades, its midnight rides, its mysterious language and commands, were found to be most effective in playing upon fears and superstitions. The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons. They wanted to scare them because if they caught someone at night like a family, then they would whip or kill the free slaves and so the free slaves would tell there family and everyone would be scare -
Freeman's Bureau
Freeman's Bureau was a federal agency that set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributed clothes, food, and fuel throughout the South. In 1866. -
The Grandfather Clause
The term Grandfather clause comes from a set of Southern laws which tired to keep black people from voting. Many people said any man could vote if their grandfather voted before 1867, but many of these grandfather were slaves and could not vote. -
15th Amendment
Citizens could not br stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Sharecropping:1870
When the slaves were freed they had nothing, and few skills other than farming. Some freed slaves agreed to go back and work on the farm for payment. If the black family was stuck just like back in slavery, having to work for free. -
Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws in the United States that said colored people had to go to other schools, and diners and drink from a different water fountain. -
Reconstruction Ended
-
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." -
Williams v Mississippi
it is a United States Suprime Court case that inspection supplement of the state constitution that set the need for voter registration. -
Brownsville affair
The Brownsville affair was on August 1906. It was about a was a racial incident that arose out of tensions between black soldiers and white citizens in Brownsville, Texas. When a white bartender was killed and a police officer wounded by gunshot, townspeople accused the members of the 25th Infantry Regiment, a unit of Buffalo Soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Brown. Although commanders said the soldiers had been in the barracks all night, evidence was planted against them. -
NAACP
The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through the democratic processes. Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the wor -
Red Summer
Whites attacked blacks -
Moore v Dempsey
Moore v. Dempsey was the first case concerning the justice given to African-Americans in the South that came before the Court in the 20th century. The case resulted from the Elaine Race Riot in Phillips County, Arkansas, which followed the shooting death of a white railroad security employee on September 30, 1919 after shots were exchanged outside a church where a black tenant farmers union was meeting. Who fired the first shot is unknown. The governor, Charles Hillman Brough, led a detachment o -
Scottsboro Boys
In Alabama in 1931 nine black teenagers were riding on a train. They were accused of attacking two white girls. The boys were given a quick trial in court and all found guilty by a white jury. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were protests against segregation on interstate busing in the South. On there way to the South some people that really didn't like them set their bus on fire. But a police man got them out just in time. -
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprits and long jumps. He participated in the summer olympics and won 4 gold metals. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping has benefits and costs for both the owners and the croppers. It encourages the cropper to remain on the land throughout the harvest season to work the land, solving the harvest rush problem. -
December 9, 1952- The Brown v Board of Education
The Brown v Board of Education was about a person that was like 1/8th black and he went on the white bus one time. He soon told someone that he was 1/8 black and they told people. They called the police and he got arrested. Argued December 9, 1952
Reargued December 8, 1953
Decided May 17, 1954. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955 in Montgomery Alabama, a woman named Rosa Parks was asked to move her seat on a city bus because she was black. When Rosa Parks was arrested the black people of Montgomery decided they could no longer ride the bus until they could sit where they what. they did not ride the busses for 381 days. -
Emett Till
14 year old African American boy was beat up by 2 white men and murderd on Augest 28, 1955 -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and she was sitting were black men, woman, and children should sit and when all of the ten seats were filled on the bus for the white men, woman, and children the bus driver told Rosa Parks that she had to stand up for the white man who just got on, Rosa Parks didn't get up so she was kicked off the bus. -
Little Rock High School Desegation
On the first day of school, nine students attempted to get into the school for classes, but the Arkansas National Guard made a wall around the school so that the nine colored students couldn't get in. -
Civil Right Acts 1957
In 1957, only 20% of black people were signed to vote. The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 tired to make it so more black people would register to vote; the government would try to stop people who were trying to scare black people from voting. -
Civil Right Acts 1960
This law added to the Act of 1957. It made large fines for people caught scaring people trying to vote. It also made permanent a government group which watched over voting to make sure it was fair to black people. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were protests against segregation on interstate busing in the South. On there way to the South some people that really didn't like them set their bus on fire. But a police man got them out just in time. -
16th Street Baptist Church
16th Street Baptist Church was bombed and 4 girls were killed who were in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Martin Luther King Jr
-
24th Amendment
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7th, 1965, close to 600 marchers tired to walked from Selma Alabama to the capital in Montgomery Alabama. They were marching to protest the killing of a black man and to demand voting rights. -
Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery Alabama (Marches)
Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. All three marches were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery the Alabama capitol. They grew out of the voting rights movement in Selma, launched by local African-Americans who formed the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL). In 1963, the DCVL and organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began vote
