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Events of the Civil Rights Movement - 19th and 20 centuries
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American Civil War Begins
Northern States who opposed slavery battled southern states who supported slavery. This war started when the southern states of America declared themselves as a seprate unit from the northern states and both sides had different points of view on slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential declaration issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War. It freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the southern states). :) -
American Civil War Ends
The southern states' confederacy surrenders and the Civil War ends! -
Strauder v. West Virginia
Strauder v. West Virginia was a United States Supreme Court case about racial discrimination. Strauder was the first time that the Court had reversed a state criminal conviction for a violation of a constitutional decision concerning criminal procedure. -
New Mississippi constitution
Mississippi passed a new constitution that blocked most blacks from voting by using poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. Blacks were also blocked from serving jury duty, which made many future court cases regarding convicted blacks unfair. -
Plessy vs. Furgison
Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark US Supreme Court decision supporting requiring racial segregation in public under the standards of "separate but equal." -
Brownsville Affair
The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was a racial incident that arose out of tensions between black soldiers and white citizens in Brownsville, Texas, in 1906. When a white bartender was killed and a police officer wounded by gunshot, townspeople accused the members of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Brown. Although the commanders said the soldiers had been in the barracks all night, evidence was planted against them. President Rosevelt was involved in this case. -
Re-Segregation
President Woowrow Wilson orders physical re-segregation of federal workplaces. -
Moore vs. Dempsey
Moore vs. Dempsey was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled 6-2 that the defendants' mob-dominated trials deprived them of due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade following World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The US Army forms an African American air combat unit called the Tuskegee Airmen. -
Hernandes vs. Texas
Hernandez v. Texas was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act is a landmark piece of federal legislation (along with the Civil Rights Act as previously mentioned) in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Milliken vs. Bradley
Milliken v. Bradley was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned de-segregation of public school students across 53 school districts in Detroit. It concerned the plans to integrate public schools in the United States in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education court case decision.
