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Lincoln elected president
The day Abraham Lincoln was elected president -
Black Codes
Laws passed by Southern states restricting freed slaves freedom and making them work in a labor based on low wages or debt -
Freedman's Bureau
By Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
Lincoln assisinated
When Booth killed Lincoln -
Ku Klux Klan
When they started/begun -
Enforcement Acts
3 bills passed by the United States Congress: they were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, hold office, serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Civil rights of 1875
A U.S. federal law during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment /rights in public accommodations, transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
A Louisiana law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites -
NAACP
When National Association for the Avdvancement of Colored People started -
Scottsboro Boys Trial
Nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama. -
Brown V. Board of School
Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races -
Emmett Till murder
Was murdered because he whilsted at a white lady. -
Civil rights act of 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from using their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. -
MLK assasinated
When Martin Luther King was assisinated
