Civil Rights

By minerman237

  • End of slavery

    End of slavery
    The Emancipation Proclamation was to free all the slaves. Abraham Lincoln was the main writer of the Emancipation

  • Civil rights act of 1866

    Civil rights act of 1866
    It was a bill that helped african americans be free after the civil war, but was vetoed by the presadent, Andrew Johnson

  • Begining of the "Jim Crow" era

    Begining of the "Jim Crow" era
    Made people who are colored to have to be segragated from the rest.

  • Plessy vs. Freguson

    Plessy vs. Freguson
    This supreme court case said that all public places were segragated, under the doctirine of "Separate but equal"

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    This was the first meetring of the NAACP. a group devoted to helping the colord community with rights

  • woodrow wilson resegragates

    Woodrow wilson reinstats a ban on intigrated work places, after 50 years of it being intergrated.

  • sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla.

    sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla.
    This court hearing said that sipuel could go to the university of oaklahoma, becasue they denied her becasue she was black.

  • Hocutt v. Wilson

    This suit was for colored people to go to the north carolina collage of negros, now north carolina central university, and the plaintifs were the UNC system, and they were saying that the black people could not go to scholl there. it was dismissed, but was a case similar to the brown v. board of education case later.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Serious push towards civil rights, stated that children of all races can go to public schools.

  • The death of Emmett till

    The death of Emmett till
    Emmet till was beaten and killed brutaly after he Whistled at a white woman in a store.

  • Rosa parks bus boycott

    Rosa parks was on a bus, and she refused to give up her seat to a white person. she went to jail for breaking a law

  • March on Washington

    This march was as march that many famous speaches were spoken, and helped to change america. It took place in washington DC, and was a huge push for freedom, with over 100,000 people particeipating in the march from the washington monument to the linclon mamorial.

  • CIvil rights act of 1964

    This act stated that all people are equel under law, and people cant discriminate on them just on the color of their skin.

  • 1965 Voting Rights Act

    This act said no discriminating vs colord people while voting

  • Shelby county v. Holder

    part of the voting rights act is abolished becase it is "not useful any more"