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the civil war finaly comes to an end
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Equal rights were given to Aferican Americans
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Black men were given the right to vote
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KKK members tried and convicted by federal courts in Mississippi. Grant suspends habeas corpus and declared martial law in 9 South Carolina counties. Many Blacks elected to political office.
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43rd Congress has seven Black members
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Congress passed a law allowing Blacks to purchases even what those of white men purchase
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 declared unconstitutional
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. The ruling stated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealt with political and not social equality. Plessy v. Ferguson gave a broad interpretation of "equal but separate" accommodations with reference to "white and colored people" legitimizing "Jim Crow" practices throughout the South.
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Roa parks joins the National Advancements for the Assosiation of Colored People
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President Truman established a Committee on Civil Rights
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Discrimination in the armed forces was banned
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this was a year that was spent with out a single lynching
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the supreme court declared segregation in schools to be unconstitutional.
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the arrest for thr freedom riders happened in the west
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I have a dream speech
