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The Fight for Civil Rights

By scooper

  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

    Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
    She helps free more than 300 slaves by the way of the underground railroad.

  • The Civil War begins.

    The Civil War begins.
    Brain Pop - Civil WarThis was a war between the Confederate and the Union States over slavery.

  • Emancipation Proclimation

    Emancipation Proclimation
    President Abraham Lincoln announced that all slaves in the Confederate states would be freed.

  • Thirteenth Amendment is passed.

    Thirteenth Amendment is passed.
    Slavery is offically abolished from the United States.

  • Civil Rights Act is passed.

    Civil Rights Act is passed.
    Civil Rights Act is passed giving all black citizens the right to equal treatment in public.

  • US Supreme Court declares that Civil Rights for all are unconstitutional

    US Supreme Court declares that Civil Rights for all are unconstitutional
    Individual states now have the power to descriminate in any way they want against blacks because laws covered by the Civil Rights Act should be left up to the state.

  • Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.

    Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
    This leads to Martin Luther King Jr. leading a boycott of Montgomery buses that lasts over a year.

  • Nine Black students intgrate with white students.

    Nine Black students intgrate with white students.
    This took place in Little Rock AR. President Dwight Eisenhower sent in troops to ward off any violence.