civil rights from cade

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    ended slavery
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    black men voting rights
  • Tuskegee Institute created

    Tuskegee Institute created

    helped black people to get education
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    separate but equal
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    helped people who aren't white to have rights
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    allowed women to vote
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    gave women equal rights to men
  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981

    unsegregated military units truman
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    declared separate but equal unconstitutional
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    refused to ride the busses
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed

    used peaceful tactics to help get rights for black people
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    group of black students that went to a previously all white school
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    made voting interference illegal
  • Greensboro, NC Sit-ins

    Greensboro, NC Sit-ins

    students protested segregation
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed

    group of students that protested segregation
  • Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)

    Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)

    helped give mexican americans rights
  • freedom riders

    freedom riders

    protested bus segregation
  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez

    lead the chicano movement
  • Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

    Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

    letter from MLK stating why he protested the way he did