CIVIL RIGHTS

By vaneezamk
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    Little Rock 9

  • CIVIL RIGHTS BILL

    ADDED EQUAL RIGHTS IN CONTRACTS AND EMPLOYMENT, ATTEMPTING TO
    PROVIDE FOR EQUALITY OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
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    LYNCHING

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • RACE RIOTS IN AMERICA

    WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA

  • RACE RIOTS IN AMERICA

    ATLANTA GEORGIA

  • NAACP

    Founded by W.E.B DuBois
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    GREAT MIGRATION

  • RACE RIOTS

    ELAINE ARKANSAS

  • RACE RIOTS

    TULSA OKLAHOMA

  • Margold Report

  • Murray v. Maryland

  • Gaines v. Missouri

  • Rosa Parks became member and got elected Montgomery NAACP secretary

  • Sweatt v. Painter

  • McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

  • Malcolm X

    Released from Prison

  • Brown v. Board of Education:

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    CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

    THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, THREE MAJOR AMENDMENTS PASSED
    13TH
    ABOLISHED SLAVERY
    14TH
    ESTABLISHED CITIZENSHIP
    “NOR SHALL ANY STATE DEPRIVE ANY PERSON OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY, WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF
    LAW; NOR DENY TO ANY PERSON WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW
    15TH
    PROVIDED FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE REGARDLESS OF “RACE, COLOR, OR CONDITION OF PREVIOUS SERVITUDE
    (SLAVERY)

  • Martin Luther King Jr

    becomes known during Montgomery Bus
    Boycott

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Little Rock Arkansas

  • Grassroots organization established

  • The Freedom Rides

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    SCLC

    Albany, Georgia 1962 Birmingham, Alabama 1963 St. Augustine, Florida, 1963-64 March on Washington Selma, Alabama 1965 Chicago Freedom Movement 1966

  • Malcolm X - The Black Revolution

  • Kennedy and Civil Rights

    Kennedy proposed a comprehensive bill covering discrimination

  • Violent Response Increases Pressure

    Fire Bombing of a church in Birmingham

  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  • The Civil Rights Act

  • State of the Union

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Urban riots

  • Fair Housing Act

  • The assassination of Dr. King