The Civil Rights Movement

By Edayy88

  • 13th Amendment

    This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

  • 14th Amendment

    This amendment addresses citizenship rights and and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to fomer slaves following the American Civil War.

  • 15th Amendment

    It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruled that schools should be "separate but equal."

  • Mendez vs. Westminister

    A Supreme Court case that eventually led to the ruling that it was unconstitutional for segregation of Mexican students in school.

  • Brown vs. the Board of Education

    the Supreme Court rules against school segregation

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white person.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It was a social and politcal protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Martin Luther King finds this conference in order to work for full equality for African Americans.

  • Little Rock Nine

    These were nine students who were racially segregated from entering a school in Arkansas.

  • Birmingham Campaign

    Executive Director Wyatt Tee Walker carefully planned the early strategy and tactics for the campaign. It focused on one goal—the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown merchants, rather than total desegregation, as in Albany.

  • March on Washington

    An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Freedom Summer

    3 civil rights workers disappeared and were murdered by KKK members.

  • Civil RIghts Act of 1964

    It banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, sex or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations.

  • Mississippi Democratic Party

    Blacks in Mississippi had been disfranchised by statutory and constitutional changes since the late 19th century. In 1963 COFO held a Freedom Vote in Mississippi to demonstrate the desire of black Mississippians to vote. More than 80,000 people registered and voted in the mock election, which pitted an integrated slate of candidates from the "Freedom Party" against the official state Democratic Party candidates.

  • Malcolm X joins the movement

    Malcolm X, national representative of the Nation of Islam, formally broke with that organization, and made a public offer to collaborate with any civil rights organization that accepted the right to self-defense and the philosophy of Black nationalism.