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The 14th Amendment stated that all people born or naturalized in America were American citizens. Also, states are not allowed to deny a person of any of their rights.
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This Amendment gave black people the right to vote.
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The act stated that white business owners could not refuse to hire certain people based solely on their skin color.
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The Jim Crow Laws were the laws regarding racial segregation, including schools, restrooms, water fountains, and busses being segregated by race.
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Booker T. Washington publishes a book that was intended to end racial discrimination against blacks.
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The NAACP was one of America's most important civil rights movement, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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More than 25 riots broke out during the summer of 1919, resulting in 38 deaths.
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Fraklin D. Roosevelt thought the Japanese in AMerica were untrustworthy.
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Jackie Robinson played his first Major League Baseball game, breaking the "color barrier".
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The Supreme Court makes the decision to end segregated schools.
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Emmett was brutally beaten to death for whistling at a whit girl. The obvious murderer was found innocent by an all white jury. this raised many questions as to the prejudice against blacks.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front half of the bus to a white person. She was arrested for this.
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Nine black students in Little Rock, Arkansas were blocked from going into the school. president Eisenhower sent 5,000 troops to settle things down. when the black students entered the school, many of the other white students protested.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech regarding his views on how all men, despite their race or ethnicity, should treat each other as equals.
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Racial disccrimination was outlawed in America.
