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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
This amendment made it clear that everyone born in the United States is a citizen. Given any race or ethnicity group they have been given or granted citizenship. For example, African American slaves that were previously born in the United States now have rights from this amendment. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Established the constitutionality of laws mandating separate but equal public accommodations for African Americans and whites. African Americans had more freedom and say within the country. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. -
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. Prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Segregation still deprived minority children of equal educational opportunities.
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Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. ran this boycott by standing up for segregation on buses. This ultimately led to the Supreme court ruling that segregation on buses unconstitutional.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. Got rid of pointless extra fees to voting at polls. -
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Cesar Chavez saw the poor conditions farm workers were working through. He decided to start a movement to help bring light to the situation and improve pay and working conditions for all farmers. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities.
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