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The Declaration of Independance was written.
The Declaration of Independance had condemned the king of Great Britain for freeing slaves who fought on thier side. -
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Advancement of Civil Rights
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
This court case said that all blacks could never become US citzens. -
Emancipation Proclamation is published.
The emancipation proclamation held no power in the south, for at the time we broke into a civil war, but it did say that slavery was illegal. This shaped the nation after the war. -
Thirteenth Amendment is ratified.
This outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude. -
Fourteenth Ammendment is ratified.
Adopted after the Civil War, this gave blacks their civil rights. -
Fifteenth Amendment is ratified.
Gave all male citizens including blacks the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Court case that established separate but equal. -
President Truman issues executive order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military.
At the start of the Vietnam war, president Truman outlawed segregation in the military. -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
It was decided at this case that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional in schools. It violated the equal protection clause. -
Emmitt Till Case
Emmitt Till was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman. This sparked the major civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks refuses to agree with segregation.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus so the bus driver could not keep practicing the regular custom of segregation. -
Four black college students sit in at white bar.
Black students protest segregation by sitting in at a white only bar. They were heckled by whites but continued to persist. -
Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses the National Gaurd to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School.
To stop what Gov. Faubus was doing, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school. -
Freedom Rides begin.
Freedom Riders went into the south multiple times to fight against segregation. The start from Washington D.C. -
Megar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
Megar Evers was the leader of the civile rights movement. He was assasinated June 12th. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives "I have a Dream" speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington D.C. -
The Civil Rights Act is passed.
This outlawed any forms of discrimination of any citizen (blacks too) includeding segregation. -
Malcom X is assasinated in a march.
Malcom X was a prominenet leader in the civil rights movement and a movie was even made after him. He was assasinated February 21st, 1965. -
First Black to be named to the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black associate chief justice of the supremem court. -
Dr. Matin Luther King Jr. is assasinated.
Dr. Matin Luther King Jr. was assainated in Memphis, Tennessee when standing on his balcony in a hotel. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed into law.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act, which provided equal housing opportunities regardless of race.