Civil Rights Movement

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  • Emancipation Proclamation

    -Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln
    -Immediately freed 50,000 slaves

  • Civil War Ends

    Union Victory

  • 15th Amendment

    -Prohibted each government of the U.S. from denying a citizens right to vote based on race or color.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    -Separate but Equal

  • Brown v. Board of Education Topeka

    • Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
    • declared state laws establsing separate but equal public schools for black and white students unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Seat

    • Refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man
    • Arrested and convicted of violating Jim Crow Laws

  • Little Rock Nine

    • 9 African American students attended an all white school for the first time since Brown v. Board was overturned

  • MLK gives "I Have a Dream Speech"

    • 17 mimute speech in which Martin Luther King Jr. called for racial equality and an end to racial descrimination.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    • Shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN