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Civil Rights Movement

By jonmoore1616
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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Civil War Starts

  • Emancipation Proclamation Was Signed

  • Civil War Ended and Slavery is Abolished

  • Goverment allows all blacks to be citizens

  • Allowed the right to vote not to be judged on race

  • Lynchings

    Between this time and the turn of the century about 2500 lynchings occured against African Americans and the majority of them having taken place in the south.

  • Plessy VS. Ferguson case determined that seperate but equal was constitutional

  • Jackie Robinson

    He becomes the first African-American to play major league baseball.

  • Brown VS. Board of Education Court Case

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Alabama

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded

  • The March On Washingto DC and the "I Have a Dream" speech took place

  • Civil Rights act was put into action by Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Malcolm X was killed in New York

  • Voting Rights Act was passed

  • Martin Luther King Jr. was killed

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