African American Civil Rights

By P.riley

  • 13th Amendment ratified

    Abolishing slavery
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    Black Codes passed in the south

    Restricted African American freedoms and compelled them to work for lower wages

  • 14th amendment ratified

    Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

  • 15th Amendment ratified

    Granted African American men the right to vote

  • Compromise of 1877

    Hayes wins the presidency and ends reconstruction
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    Jim Crow Law

    Legalized racial segregation in public places

  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Supreme Court cases that upheld racial segregation by the “separate but equal” doctrine

  • NAACP founded

    National association for the advancement of Colored people founded by W.E.B Du Bios
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    Harlem Renaissance

    Intellectual, social, and artist explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan... also known as The New Negro Movement

  • President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Supreme Court case that made segregating schools illegal

  • MLK’s “I Have a Dream speech”

  • Civil Rights Act signed

    Signed by L.B. Johnson and prohibited discrimination in public places and put an end to black codes and Jim Crow laws