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14th Amendment
Ratified 1968, The 14th amendment is a very important amendment that defines what it means to be a US citizen and protects certain rights of the people. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
This case was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal. A law was passed to separate blacks and whites on railroads, including separate railroad cars. Then a group of prominent blacks attempted to appeal the law. -
Race Riots in Chicago
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27 and ended on August 3. During the riot, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured. -
Executive Order 9981
This was an executive order issued by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This case changed history. Brown was against separating blacks and whites and won the case, because it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth Amendment. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person while on a bus in Montgomery, AL. She then was arrested and the news spread - sparking the American Civil Rights movement of the 20th century. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was an African American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African American civil rights organization which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Central HS
Little Rock Central High School was the site of forced school desegregation after the US Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. -
NC Sit in by 4 black students
Four black college students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions. -
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
Letters from Birmingham Jail
Letters from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
University of Alabama
Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll. -
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
Birmingham Bombing
A bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services. The racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Acts
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Selma to Montgomery
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama. -
Executive Order 11246
This order was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors -
Watts Riots
An African-American motorist was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight. The community reacted in outrage to allegations of police brutality that soon spread, and six days of looting and arson followed. -
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. -
Detroit race Riots
The Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It began in the early morning hours of Sunday. -
MLK
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, is a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
