Civil Rights

  • American School for the Deaf

    The first school for children with disabilities anywhere in the Western Hemisphere
  • Abraham Lincoln is elected

  • 13th Amendment

    No slavery except as a punishment for crime
  • 14th Amendment

    All people born in the US are citizens of the United States.
  • 15th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote, regardless of race or color.
  • Jim Crow

    Enforced racial segregation in the southern United States
  • Smith-Sears Veterans Rehabilitation Act

    To provide employment assistance for people with disabilities who were discharged from the US military
  • Dust Bowl

    surface air temperature increase by 0.25C
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
  • Emmett Till

    A 14 year old boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store
  • Martin Luther King Jr

  • National Association for Down Syndrome

    Serves children and adults with Down syndrome and their families
  • Freedom Rides

    A group of civil rights activists who rode buses through the south
  • Civil Rights act

  • Mental Illness Bill of Rights Act

    Requires states to provides protection and advocacy for people with psychological disabilities.
  • Disability Pride Parade

    First active group to bring awareness to people with disabilities who identify as LGBTQ.

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