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13th Amendment
To end Slavery. Many abolitionists were against slavery and it resulted slavery to be illegal. However, the 13th amendment was a way that made slavery as a punishment for a crime. -
14th Amendment
Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause. -
15th Amendment
It prevents the federal government from rejecting any citizen to vote based on their race. Before this amendment was overturned, only white men were allowed to vote, which was unfair for colored men. -
Tuskegee Institute
It is a school that was created by Booker T. Washington and it is located in Tuskegee, Alambama. The school was made for black men to be trained for their future benefit of making good money wisely. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy, a black man who was 1/8th american, got kicked off from a train because he sat in a white seat. After he was sent to court, the Supreme case violated the 14th amendment and the Jim Crow law was created. -
NAACP
NAACP is the National Associationfor the Amendment of Colored People. It’s a organization for civil rights and fights for lynching, prejudice, and Jim Crow segregation. -
19th Amendment
The two leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony both made a movement for women to have the right to vote. This event took place during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It clearly stated that the rights of the United States to vote should not be denied by any gender. -
Executive Order 9981
Harry Truman Created this to have equality between African American and American.However the military did not like it but it benefited those who were mistreated. It created more Black support in the South and it ended segregation. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was the decision that the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson. It was led by chief Justice Earl Warren and the court took control that “separate but equal” schools for blacks were unequal and unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Park did not give up her seat for a white man as required by city ordinance. This began the civil rights movement and an almost nation- wide bus boycott that lasted for 11 months. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine was the first group of black students to integrate in Little a Rock High School. Although it made many Americans upset, it brought international attention to the civil rights cause. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Eisenhower passed this bill to form a permanent commission on civil rights with investigative rights but it did not help African American people. It was the first civil-rights bill to be acted out after Reconstruction which was supported by most non-southern whites. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
An organization that was created by Martin Luther King Jr. It was to eliminate segregation from Americans to register to vote. In the organization, the ministers, mainly blacks, believed that the black church should play an important role in the African American civil rights movement. -
Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
It was about four black students that attempted to force the desegregation of a lunch counter in Woolworth’s store. They sat in which lasted several days By the 4th day, 300 students had joined the sit-in. In the end, the store was closed rather than desegregated. -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
Began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the southwest. Many artists began to use walls of the city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to show Mexican-American culture. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed
it was formed to give younger African-Americans more of a voice in civil rights movements. it happened in Greensboro, North Carolina and it directed much of the black voter registration drives in the south. -
Freedom Riders
A group of Africans and civil rights activists that attempted to desegregate bus terminals around the country. The Freedom riders inspired African Americans all around the country. Also, when whites in the North saw this violence used against the Freedom riders, they turned against the segregationists in the South. -
March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech
It was the most celebrated speech by Martin Luther King Jr. It was delivered at a large crowd which was 250,000 people in Washington, D.C, in 1963. The people were supporters of the civil rights movement. -
Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
It was a letter that Martin Luther King Jr addressed about his fellow clergymen while he was in jain in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation. -
24th Amendment
Ratified in 1964 and it was to forbid the use of the poll tax as a requirement for voting in national or U.S. Congressional elections. It abolished Jim Crow laws and anything preventing African Americans from voting.
