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The 13th Ammendment to the US constitution is passed abolishing slavery.
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The 14th Ammendment was passed to ensure that every person born in the United States were citezens and had equal laws.
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DuBois demands racial equality mainly between whites and blacks and opposes of all laws that were not equal.
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This argument allowed for the desegration of schools. This overrulled the Plessy vs Ferguson decision which allowed state school segregation
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old black boy who was murdered on the way home from school because he whistled at a white woman. This was a very important murder because it was one of the leading events that motivated the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. This caused a new era for black freedom and equality.
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Minorities across the US, mainly south, would sit in a restauraunt or some other buisness and wait to be served. They were never served but spit on and had things thrown at them, but this was a major event because other minorities followed this and then it was large silent protest.
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Where Martin Luther King Jr. had his "I have a dream" speech. This was a march where minorities got together to discuss their freedoms, rights, and jobs.
