Civil Rights

By garettblair

  • Massachusetts outlaws slavery within the state.

  • Importation of slaves stopped legally

  • Nat Turner Slave Rebellion

    In Virginia; 57 whites killed; U.S. troops kill 100 slaves; Turner caught, tried and hanged.

  • Compromise of 1850

    California joins the union as a free state. strengthens Fugitive Slave Laws, and ends slave trade in Washington, D.C.

  • Confederacy Formed

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Freed all slaves in areas still in rebellion
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    Civil War ends, and Civil Rights Amendments

    1865: Civil War ends, and 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, added to the Constitution. 1868: 14th Amendmentcitizenship added to Constitution. 1870: 15th Amendment put a end to racial discrimination in voting.

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    "separate but equal" segregation doctrine.

  • End to Military Racial Segregation

    President Truman executive order outlawing segregation in U.S. military.

  • Brown v BOE

    Outlawed racial segregation in schools

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus as required by city ordinance; boycott follows and bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional.

  • Little Rock 9

    Nine black students are prevented from attending a Little Rock High School; President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow students in school.

  • JFK

    University of Mississippi first black student. The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.

  • I Have a Dream

    Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, leaves four young black girls dead.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act declaring discrimination based on race illegal.