civil rights movement

By swht713
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    made slavery legal
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    all citizens are equal under the law and entitled to due process
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    all male citizens have the right to vote
  • jim crow laws

    jim crow laws

    laws that segregated african americans from whites and didnt let african americans to vote because of laws like the grandfather clause
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    helped women to be able to vote in national elections
  • desegregation of the armed forces

    desegregation of the armed forces

    president harry truman desegregated the armed forces through an executive order after world war 2
  • sit ins

    sit ins

    people started sitting in places were colored people werent allowed until they served them food if they werent served they stayed even though people hurt them they wanted to be treated equal
  • freedom rides

    freedom rides

    it was when people started to ride in buses all over the country to influence other people to follow their non protest movement to chane the laws but also they sometimes got stopped and beat down
  • 24th amendment

    let people vote for all kinds of people like president, vice president, senators or representative to congress cant be denied by poll taxes or voting tax and congress had power to enforce it
  • voting rights act

    they fought for their rights to be able to vote but whites didnt like that so they beat the colored up