Civil Right Movement

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    It declared all Slaves be free.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    All citizens are equal under the law
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    All male cizitens have right to vote
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruling supported the doctrine of segregation:
    " Separate but Equal"
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Women to vote( suffage's women)
  • Desegregation of the Armed Forces

    Desegregation of the Armed Forces

    President Truman desegregation the armed forces throght an executive order after WWll.
  • Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    " Separation But Equal"
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins

    After having been refused service at the launch counter of a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Bus load of people waged a cross-country campaign to try to end segregation of Bus terminals