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Emancipation Proclamation
An Excuetive Order given by President Abraham Lincoln that which freed 50,000 slaves. And was the head of abolition but slavery wasn't completely removed until the 13th Amendment was created. -
13th Amendment
A movement used to end the slave trade and set slaves free with the help of President Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. That which was turned into an amendment that was created in Washington D.C. -
14th Amendment
An amendment that protects everyone's civil and political rights and gives citizenship to everyone born in the US. Written into the constitution at Washington, D.C. -
15th Amendment
Everyone has the right to vote regardless of their religion, race, or skin color which the government can't deny.Put into the U.S. constitution in Washington, D.C. -
Plessy v Ferguson
A landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine ''separate but equal'' -
19th Amendment
Anybody was given a right to vote including women too.With the help of the Women's Suffrage Movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.That made into an amendment in Washington, D.C. -
Smith v Allwright
A very important decision of the United States Supreme court with regard to voting rights and by extension ,racial desegregation. It overturned the Democratic Party's use of all white primaries in Texas and other states where the party used the rule. -
Executive Order 9981
Executive order 9981 is an executive order issued by U.S President Harry S. Truman and abbolished racial segregation in the armed forces -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A court case about segregated schools being separate but equal and it wasn't between Lydia Brown's father, the NAACP and school district in Topeka, Kansas -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was an African-American boy who murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
March on Washington for jobs and freedom
Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economics rights for African Americans -
Montgomery bus boycott
A poltical and social protest campaign that started in 1955 intented to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system in Montgomery Alabama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
An act that gave all Americans the right to exercise or stretch their right to vote and 20% of African-Americans were already registered to vote. -
Greensboro and Nashville Sit-ins
the sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of segregation in the southern United States. -
Freedom rides
A 1961 Supreme court decison to end desgregation not only in travel but also in bus terminal facilities prompted a new set of freedom rides and SNCC's involvement -
Sunday school bombing
The 16th Street Baptist church in Birminghan Alabama was bombed as an act of racially motivated terrorism.The explosion at the African-American chuch which killed four girls marked a turning point in the U.S -
24th Amendment
An amendment created in Washington, D.C. which involved both Congress and the States from tying poll tax or any other kind of tax. To a right of voting in Federal Elections which began in the Southern States. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
An act known as a landmark of Legislation in the U.S. which prohibited discrimination against African- Americans and women. For power support it was tied into parts of the constitution the including 14th and 15th amendments. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States of America that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African American in the U.S. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Often called the Fair Housing Act that was established in the U.S. which gave protection to people from discrimination about housing problems like rent and finance regardless of race.
