African American Civil Rights

By happylexie

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    made slavery legal in all the territories

  • 13th amendment

    abolished slavery

  • 14th amendment passed

    state couldn't infringe on a persons rights

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruled seperate but equal was legal

  • Grandfather Clause repealed

    Grandfather Clause restricted black voting registration

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    baned segregation in schools, seperate is not equal

  • Emmet Till is murdered

    14 year old black boy murdered for whistling at a white woman'

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man

  • Desegregation of Montgomery bus system

  • SCLC established

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference established by Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Little Rock Board votes on segregation

  • Freedom Riders begin challenging laws

  • Martin Luther King Jr. writes his "Letter form Birmingham Jail"

  • Leader of Mississippi's NAACP murdered

  • Lincoln Memorial Civil Rights

    Thousands of African Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches on civil rights, including "I Have a Dream"

  • 24th amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    forbid discrimination based on race
    (employment)

  • Malcom X assasinated

    Malcom X left Black Muslim because of thier belief of nonviolence and segregation

  • African Americans march

    Martin Luther King Jr. lead a 54 mile march for African American voting

  • Voting Rights Act approved

  • Black Panthers formed

    formed by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton

  • Interracial marraige unconstitutional

    Interracial marraige ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassintaed

  • Civil Rights act of 1968

  • Civil Rights Restoration Act

    passed by Congress

  • Civil Rights Act of 1991

    gave African Americans the right to a jury trial