Civil Rights

By AprilVaksdal

  • Jan 1 1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation

    1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the enslaved in the
    rebellious Confederate states.

  • Jan 31 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment

    1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment is passed abolishing slavery in the United States.

  • Jul 9 1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment

    1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing all African-Americans the rights of full U.S. citizens.

  • Jul 9 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment

    1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race.

  • 1890s - Jim Crow laws

    1890s - Jim Crow laws become common in many southern states segregating blacks from whites.

  • May 18th 1896 - The Supreme Court

    1896 - The Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson case using the "separate but
    equal" argument.

  • Feb 12 1909 - The NAACP

    1909 - The NAACP is founded by African-American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells.

  • Apr 12 1948 President Harry S Truman

  • May 17 1954 Brown v. Board Education

  • Dec 5 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Aug 4 1957

    Arkansas Nine

  • May 4 1961

    The Freedom Riders

  • Jul 28 1963 The March on Washington

  • 1963 The Birmingham Campaign

  • Aug 4 1965 The Voting Rights Act

  • Jul 2 1964 The Civil Rights Act

  • Jan 30 1965 Bloody Sunday

  • Apr 4 1968 Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated

  • Aug 30 1967 Thurgood Marshall

  • Jan 20 2009 Barack Obama