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14th amendment
The fourteenth amendment was put in place to show how who is a citizen of the United States. -
the fifteenth amendment
The fifteenth amendment was granted to let slaves vote. -
Buissnesses need equality
Congress passed a third Civil Rights Act because white business owners and merchants refused to make their facilities and establishments equally available to black people. -
seperate but equal
The Supreme Court approved separate but equal segregation doctrine. -
the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee. -
KKK
The first KKK march on washington D.C. -
Out lawing segregation
President Truman issued an order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military. -
Rosa parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. -
Sit and wait
Four black university students from N.C. A&T University began a sit-in at a segregated F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C -
EEOC
President Kennedy issued prohibiting discrimination in federal government hiring on the basis of race, religion or national origin and establishing The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity -
LETS START A RIOT
James Meredith was first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots. -
Medgar Evans killed
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet. -
I Have A Dream
more than 250,000 people joined to hear Martin Luther King Jr speech. -
bombing in bama
A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama killing four black girls -
civil rights act
On this day the civil rights act which out lawed dicrimination towards race and ethnicity and women.
