Civil Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    This amendment ended all slavery ans stated the any kind of slave toture will be punished with prison time.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    This amendment granted all citizens the right to vote and shall not be denied for any racial reason
  • Tuskegee Institute Creation

    Tuskegee Institute Creation

    This was a institute that was founded by Booker T washington in order to train african american teachers in alabama
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    This was a group created to ensure political economic educational and social equality with black people
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Granted women the right to vote
  • Executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981

    This was statement that said all people in the armed forces will be treated equal regardless of gender race or religion
  • Brown vs Board of eductaion

    Brown vs Board of eductaion

    This was statement from the court saying that establishing racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    African americans refused to ride the buses causing those bus companies to go out of business
  • SCLC

    SCLC

    Martin Luther King Jr helped coordinate and assist local organizations working for the full equality of African Americans
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    They were the first african americans to enter Little Rock Central High
  • Civil rights act of 1957

    Civil rights act of 1957

    the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote
  • Greensboro- North carolina sit ins

    Greensboro- North carolina sit ins

    nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
  • SNCC

    SNCC

    This was a civilist group formed by young black people in order to have a voice in the civil rights movement
  • Chicano Movement

    Chicano Movement

    Mexican American civil rights movement Artist began going around and drawing on buildings and walls to express there culture
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders

    Civil right activist who rode busses into the segregated south Protested Local laws
  • Caesar Chavez

    Caesar Chavez

    in 1962 co founded the National farm workers Association was a latino american civil right activist
  • Dr kings letter form Birmingham jail

    Dr kings letter form Birmingham jail

    he defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance of racism
  • ERA

    ERA

    This was a amendment to the Congress to guarantee equal rights for all american citizens regardless of sex