Civil Rights

By walkerc1094
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    Civil Rights

  • Slavery Banned

    Congress ends the slave trade
  • Compromise of 1820

    Compromise of 1820

    States separated into slave/free

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    William Lloyd Garrison
    (Did not include women)

  • First Women's Rights Convention

    Seneca Falls
    Stanton and Mott
    Called for abolition of legal, economic and social discrimination

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Cruelty of Slavery

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Blacks considered property, regardless of in North or South

  • 13th Amendmnet

    Banned all forms of slavery

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    1. Invalidated some of the black codes
    2. Made African Americans citizens
    3. Congress given power to intervene if states do not obey

  • 14th Amendment

    Cittizenship to all freed slaves
    Equal Rights Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Grant equal access to public accommodations

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Separate but Equal Doctrine
  • Korematsu v. U. S.

    Korematsu v. U. S.

    Legalized discrimination against Japanese Americans

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    1. Plessy unconstitutional under equal protection clause
    2. Schools must be integrated

  • Brown v. Board of Education II

    Racially segregated systems must be dismantled
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Resulted from Rosa Parks

  • SCLC Founded

    Created by Martin Luther King
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

  • The Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan’s
    Women's Rights equivalent to Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Equal Pay Act

    Women must be paid the same wage as men

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1. Outlawed discrimination in voter registration
    2. Barred discrimination in public accommodations
    3. Prohibited discrimination in employment on grounds of race, creed, color, religion, national origin or sex
    4. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  • Lawrence v Texas

    Step Towards Gay Rights