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Thirteenth amendment
Slavery or involuntary service is illegal besides if your convicted of a crime and is fairly committed. -
Fourteenth amendment
If your born in the United States you have the same rights and laws as everyone else -
fifteenth amendment
Everyone in the USA as a citizen has the right to vote no matter of color, race, or gender -
Plessy vs Ferguson
It upheld racial segregation laws for public places "separate but equal" -
Nation of Islam is founded
is an African American political and religious movement, -
CORE is founded
is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Malcolm Little arrested and prison time
He went to jail for burglary and while he was in jail he copied every page of a dictionary and then read every book the library of the jail -
Jackie Robinson integrates Major league baseball
He was the first colored baseball player ever -
Executive order 9981
abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown vs Board of Education
The government said that if black and white kids didnt go to school together it would be unconstitutional. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was 6 when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school, having to be escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs. -
SCLC is founded
Southern Christian Leadership Conference its goal is to redeem "the soul of america" -
Murder of Emmitt Till
He was a 14 year old african american who was killed by a mob of people -
southern manifesto
it was to get rid of racial opposition in public places so like get rid of white and black water fountains. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little rock nine
9 African Americans enter a Racial segregated school but Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school. -
Civil rights act of 1957
it was a voting rights bill -
Greensboro Sit-ins
four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. -
Stokely Carmichael and black power
While attending Howard University, he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was jailed for his work with Freedom Riders. He moved away from MLK Jr’s nonviolence approach to self-defense. -
SNCC is founded
Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King was the leaders and there goal was increasing student participation in the civil rights movement. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights movement where african americans rode segregated buses into the southern states -
James meredith and the integration of ole miss
he tried to enroll and then riots happened then the kennady administration order 31,000 soldiers to enforce order. -
letter from birmingham jail
Martin luther king sent a letter to his civil rights group from jail -
"Bull" Conner and Birmingham, Alabama protests
Bull Conner denied african americans civil rights and enforce racial segregation. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington for jobs and freedom
They marched in washington d.c for jobs and they wanted freedom -
Bombing of 16th street baptist church
a bomb went off before services -
24th amendment
giving you the right to vote or not and the pay poll taxes -
Freedom summer
get african americans to vote in mississippi -
Murder of james chaney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner
They were civil rights workers who was abducted and murdered in an act of racial violence -
Civil Rights act of 1964
US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X assassinated
was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims -
Voting rights of 1965
local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment -
Watts riots
an African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. -
Executive order 11246
established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. -
Black panthers are founded
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
Loving vs Virginia
Different races could get married -
Newark and Detroit race riots
Newark riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, The four days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured. -
Memphis Sanitation workers strike
years of poor pay and dangerous working conditions, and provoked by the crushing to death of workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker in garbage compactors, over 700 of the 1300 black sanitation workers met on Sunday, 11 February and agreed to strike. -
Kerner Commission
warned that racism was causing America to move “toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.” -
civil rights act of 1968
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
Tommie Smith and John Carlos black power olympic salute
After having won gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the 200-meter running event, they turned on the podium to face their flags, and to hear the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". Each athlete raised a black-gloved fist, and kept them raised until the anthem had finished. -
bloody sunday
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
