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14th Amendment
granted equal protection to african americans and was one of the three amendments passed to abolish slavery. -
15th amendment
Gave blacks the right to vote -
plessy v. Ferguson
The case that was fought over separate but equal. -
Brown v. Board of education
The young white people were not allowing young blacks in school with them so the president at the time intervened and had troops walk them to and from school. -
Rosa parks
By not giving up her seat to a white man she was arrested and this began a very big thing in the civil rights movement -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. -
March on washington
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
Civil Rights act 1964
Equal employment for all people. -
Watts Riot begins
In the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, racial tension reaches a breaking point after two white policemen scuffle with a black motorist suspected of drunken driving. A crowd of spectators gathered near the corner of Avalon Boulevard and 116th Street to watch the arrest and soon grew angry by what they believed to be yet another incident of racially motivated abuse by the police. -
Fair Housing act 1968
prevented discrimination and allowed anyone to leave anywhere.
