Civil rights

American Civil Rights Movement

By msericka04

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    States that no state shall deny any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of the law.

  • Civil Rights Act 1875

    Civil Rights Act 1875
    Equal treatment in public and on public transportation for African Americans.

  • Overturning Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Overturning Civil Rights Act of 1875
    Supreme Court rules that the Civil RIghts act is unconstitutional.

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Plessy v Ferguson
    Ruling of separate but equal facilities

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Women's suffrage movement marched on washington for the right to vote for women. Formed by Alice Paul and included Delta Sigma Theta member Ida B. Wells

  • Executive Order 8802

    Executive Order 8802
    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues an order to ban the practice of discriminatory employment in government agencies

  • Integration in MLB

    Integration in MLB
    Jackie Robinson is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American player in Major League Baseball

  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981
    President Truman orders for Armed Forces to be Integrated

  • Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
    The overturning of the previous case Plessy v Ferguson ruling that separate was not in fact equal.