civil right movement timeline

By Maou
  • Jim Crow Era

    Jim Crow Era

    Jim Crow was the biggest racism sign in then southern states, and it was proof that racism was still an issues
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott was a slave but he tried to become a citizen in the Missouri Compromise because his state was now a free-state so he went to the courts and tried to become a free man,
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    it the amendment that basically ended slavery and not let people who were slave be more then that so they could get a life now
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    it give citizenship to anybody who was born in the united states and then also let them get protected by the law. this also include the people who were slaves
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    it gave African Americans the right to vote in the untied states
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    it is a case where and African American refuse to sit in a bus of black people. then broke the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment

    no one who has been given rights in the united states shall not be declined their right to vote and sex can not effect that right
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    the Supreme Court has come to a point where separating children in school was unconstitutional. then school could no longer stop the separating,
  • •Civil Rights Act of 1964

    •Civil Rights Act of 1964

    this act stop people from being discriminated by their race, religion, sex, or national origin
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    it was pass by the President Lyndon B. Johnson to let African Americans vote and they are one step closer to being equal
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action

    it stopped discrimination on race, sex, region, etc.
  • Reed v. Reed

    Reed v. Reed

    there can no longer be is crimination based on gender.
  • Equal Rights Amendment

    Equal Rights Amendment

    it would make woman to be able to stop being second-class citizen. this will also let them overcome the obstacles of sexism.
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    the university would not let people in because of their race.
  • Bowers v. Hardwick

    Bowers v. Hardwick

    where the 14th Amendment does not prevent state to crime people with private sexual same-sex couples
  • Americans with Disabilities Act

    Americans with Disabilities Act

    this act will stop the discriminations against people with disabilities in most public
  • Motor Voter Act

    Motor Voter Act

    it made easy and let ever Americans to register to vote.
  • Lawrence v. Texas

    Lawrence v. Texas

    a Texas statute criminalizing intimate, consensual sexual conduct was a violation of the Due Process Clause.
  • Obergefell v. Hodges

    Obergefell v. Hodges

    it would allow same sex Marriage without letting anything go bad

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