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Civil Rights

By Lauren Todd

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state, making 11 free states and 12 slave states.The Missouri Compromise admitted Maine as a free state, allowing there to be a balance of 12 free states and 12 free states.

  • Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
    In Virginia August 1831, almost 70 slaves led by Nat Turner rebelled against their owners. The rebellion was shut down after 48 hours. After the rebellion, laws were passed inthe South taking away even more rights from blacks.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Slave Dred Scott went to court in 1856 to say that he had been emancipated becasue he lived with his master in the free state where slavery was forbidden. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves do not become free when taken into a free state, that Congress cannot bar slavery from a territory and that blacks cannot become citizens.

  • Start of The Civil War

    Start of The Civil War
    The Confederate States (pro slavery) seceded from the Union, and began war with the northern states (anti slavery).

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    President Abraham Lincoln declares that "all slaves in areas still in rebellion" are to be freed.

  • End of the Civil War

    End of the Civil War
    The Confederate States under the leadership of Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union under Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment was passed. It offcially outlawed slavery in the United States. It was part of the Reconsturction after the Civil War.

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1866 after the Civil War had ended. It's goal was to give citizenship and certain rights to freed slaves in the U.S.

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment allowed black men to vote. It stated that men should be able to vote, regardless of race. Although this was passed, many former slaves did not vote because a poll tax was enacted.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Plessy was arrested because he refused to board a separate train car for blacks only. He went to Court to argue that there should not be segregation on a train the passed throguh several states. The Supreme Court ruled against Plessy, therefore approving the "separate but equal" doctrine.

  • Founding of the NAACP

    Founding of the NAACP
    The National Negro Commitee met and formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), The NAACP would forever be important to the cause of Civil Rights. Their purpose was "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."

  • Klu Klux Clan

    Klu Klux Clan
    The Klu Klux Klan, a white supremacy group, peaks in the 1920s. During this time, 15% of white men in the U.S. (about 5 million) were involved with the klan. They were very violent during this time period toward other races.

  • Integration in the Military

    Integration in the Military
    During WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower allowed for black men to fight with white men for the first time ever. After this occured, Presidnet Truman ordered the integration of the military, a major advance in civil rights

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    In this case, segregation in the public schooling system was argued. The outcome of the trial, declared that "seprate but equal" was unlawful and therfore integrated schools.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    An African American women, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The segregation on buses and other public transportation was declared unconstitutional.

  • The Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine
    After integration of students is denied in Little Rock, Arkansas Presidnet Eisenhower sent armed troops to escorted nine black students into an all-white school, making a huge statement towards segregation.

  • March on Washington 1963

    March on Washington 1963
    250,000 marched on Washington for a peaceful resolution to the civil rights movement. It was the here that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous and empowering "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 declared any forms of discrimination due to race illegal adn integrated everything. It was signed by Presidnet Lyndon B. Johnson.

  • Voting Rights Acts of 1965

    This act removed poll texes, literacy tests, and other restrictions that made it hard for African American's to vote.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    This act in 1968 stopped dicrimination in the selling and buying of property such as houses.

  • MLK Jr. Assasinated

    Civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin Luther King Jr., is assasinated by rascist James Earl Ray.

  • Civil RIghts Act of 1991

    After vetoing twice, President George Bush finally passes this act in 1991. The act gave even more strength to the previous civil rights acts and gave attention to cases of discrimination on the job.