Civil Rights

  • Emancipation Proclamation ends Slavery

  • 14th Amendment Grants CItizenship to all Former-Slaves

  • Plessy v. Ferguson- Supreme Court rules that Segregation is Constitutional as long as it is "separate but equal"

    Supreme Court rules that Segregation is Constitutional as long as it is "separate but equal"
  • NAACP is Founded

  • FDR sets up anti-Discrimination Policies for Hiring Workers

  • Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers

  • Linda v. Brown- Supreme Court ends Segregation

  • MLK Delivers his Famous "I have a Dream" Speech

  • 4 Black Girls are KIlled in the Bombing of a Birmingham Church

  • Blacks get the Right to Vote