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the civil rights movement
This timeline will cover 12 important events about the civil rights movement from 1850-2014 -
The civil war
ON April 12, 1861 the civil war is declared. The reasson for this war was the republicans wished and were ditermined to keep slavery from spreading, but the southern people disagreed with this ditermination. the only way for the southern people to keep from losing the pro-slavery battle was to disunion. They had done this because Lincoln won the 1860 election without carrying a single southern state. -
Emancipation proclamation
our U.S president Abraham Lincoln declared free all slaves in rebellion against the federal government. This Emancipation Proclamation only ended up freeing a few amount of people -
third civil rights act
Congress passed a third Civil Rights Act in response to many white business owners and merchants who refused to make their facilities and establishments equally available to black people. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited such cases of racial discrimination and guaranteed equal access to public accommodations regardless of race or color. White supremacist groups, however, embarked upon a campaign against blacks and their white supporters. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law (the Separate Car Act) that required separate accommodations for blacks and whites on railroads.On june 17th 1892 Plessy bought a first class ticket and boarded a whites only car. Plessy was arrested for violating the seperate car act. They ruled in fergusons favor due to the 14th amendment in which Lousiana did not violate. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee. Founders Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English Walling led the call to renew the struggle for civil and political liberty. -
The start of the great depression
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the great depression
The great depression was known to be the biggest economy failure, on Oct 29, 1929 the stock market crashed really making it depressing. October 29 is now formally known as black Tuesday. -
the armed forces
Truman signs an executive order that states the following"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." -
Brown v. Board of education
the case was about segregation in schools. the court ruled on behalf of deciding that all schools should be equal and that currently they are not. this case ultimatly changed education forever -
Rosa Parks
On December 1st, 1955 rosa parks boarded a bus sitting in the white section. When all the white seats were taken she was asked to move to make room for a white man. She refused to do so and after word got around about this incident.50 African-American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to demand a bus system in which passengers would be treated equally. -
Martin Luther King jr.
On the 28th of August, Martin Luther King jr. gave his soon to become famous i have a dream speech.this speech not only influenced the blacks to rebel, but it also changed the mind of the white people. This speech changed world. foreverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE -
Civil rights act
The civil rights act was started and based on John F. Kennedy's speech to keep discrimination from occuring in public. This act also allowed all americans to use public accomidations. Even though in some states the police enforced just the opposite starting protests. -
Voting rights act
the voting rights act is what pushed the ratification of the 15th amendment which allowed full voting rights to any born or naturalized citizen of any color.
