Civil rights 1861-1980

By abby95
  • Period: to

    Civil rights

  • Start of American Civil War

  • End of American Civil war

  • Freedmens bureau established

  • Abraham Lincoln assinated

  • Mississippi enacts first black codes

  • 13th ammendment abolished

  • Civil Rights Act

    Grants black citizenship and legal rights

  • KKK founded

  • Supplementary freedmens bureau act

  • 14th ammendment

    Grants citezenship to all born in America

  • Freedmens bureau terminated except education

  • 15th ammendment

    Prohibits denial of suffrage

  • 3 enforcement acts KKK passed

    military force to supress KKK

  • First Jim Crow law passed in Lousiana

  • Marcus Garvey founds the universal negro improvement association

  • America enters WW1

  • Equal rights ammendement

  • President Rooservelt establishes the civil rights section

    Black facilites must be equal of those of the white

  • Japense attack pearl habour

  • America enters WW2

    Blacks segragated to military units

  • Cold War begins

  • President Truman establishes commitee on civil rights

  • Executive Order

    9981 ending segregation in military

  • Bus boycott begins

    After Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • Bus Boycott ends

  • President Kennedy improved employment opportunites

  • Civil right act

    Prohibits racial discrimination in all public places

  • Malcolm X forms organisation of afro american unity

  • Voting act abolished

    no discrimination against minority , equal employment opportunites

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Selma March

  • Martin Luther king assasinated

    in Memphis

  • Native Americans rights fund established

    to help Indians on a national level

  • Indian health care improvement act passed

  • Indian child welfare and religious acts passed