Civil Rights 7/4/1868 - 7/2/1964

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    Black Codes Are Passed By Southern States

  • Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified

    Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified

    Individuals born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens, including those born slaves.
  • Howard's Law School Becomes First Black Law School

    Howard's Law School Becomes First Black Law School

  • Plessy vs Feguson

    Plessy vs Feguson

    Case arguing that segregation is constitutional
  • Fifteenth Amendment Is Ratified

    Fifteenth Amendment Is Ratified

    Giving African American men he right to vote
  • NAACP Is Founded

    NAACP Is Founded

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    Harlem Renissance

  • Jackie Robinson Is Signed To The Dogers

    Jackie Robinson Is Signed To The Dogers

    Jackie Robinson breaks Major League's color barrier when he's signed to the Brooklyn Dogers by Branch Rickey
  • Truman Signs Executive Order 9981

    Truman Signs Executive Order 9981

    Executive order 9981 states ""It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." Read more: Civil Rights Movement Timeline (14th Amendment, 1964 Act, Human Rights Law) | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html#ixzz2ttVSchJ4
  • Supreme Court Rules on Brown vs. Borad Case

    Supreme Court Rules on Brown vs. Borad Case

    Supreme Court rules that segregation in schools is unconstitutional
  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till

    14 year old Emmett Till is brutally beat and murdered while visiting familiy in Mississippi
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" to a white passenger.
  • James Meredith Becomes Frst Black Student To Enroll At University of Mississippi

    James Meredith Becomes Frst Black Student To Enroll At University of Mississippi

    Violence and roits about the incident cause Presedint Kenedy to send 5,000 federal troops
  • MLK Jr. Arrested and Jailed

    MLK Jr. Arrested and Jailed

    Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anit-segregation protests in Brimingham, Alabama.
  • Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

    Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech

    200,000 people join the march on Washinton congregating at he Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther king's I Have A Dream speech