Civil rights poster

Black History Month

  • Emancipation Proclimation Passed

    Emancipation Proclimation Passed
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war | Legally freed all sllaves in he U.S
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    Civil Rights Timeline

  • 14th Amendment Passed

    14th Amendment Passed
    Forbids any state of depriving American Citezens of their rights and priveleges.
  • Born Cesar Chavez

    Born Cesar Chavez
    Cesar Chavez was a Civil Rights activist most commonly associated with Latinos/Hispanics.
  • MLK Jr was born

    MLK Jr  was born
    Martin Luther King, Jr. is important because he was a Civil Rights Movement Leader and is most famous for his "I have a Dream" speech.
  • John Lewis was born

    John Lewis was born
    John Lewis was important because he was one of the big 6 leaders of the Civil Rights Movements
  • Voting Rights act approved

    Voting Rights act approved
    Voting for everyone was approved. Many blacks started voting(including other monorities) and the vote registration increased.
  • Incident Rosa Parks

    Incident Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks of refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites.
  • Lunch Counter Segregation

    Lunch Counter Segregation
    Four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a wave of student sit-ins designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters. These protests spread rapidly throughout the South and led to the founding, in April 1960, of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which many people joined.
  • Medgar Evers is Murdered

    Medgar Evers is Murdered
    The head of Missisippi NAACP is shot outside of his home. This was the same night that president John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on race.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    More than 200,000 American gatherd in Washington to rally. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    You did not have to pay a fee to vote. Before this amendment was passed, people had to pay a poll tax to vote.
  • Planned March

    Planned March
    On March 7 an SCLC planned march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.Police quickly put a stop to it using riot weapons.
  • Second March

    Second March
    Martin Luther King, Jr. on March 9 turned back a second march to the Pettus Bridge when it was blocked by the police.This was the second march following the first march on March 7/
  • Father Roberto Chavarria

    Father Roberto Chavarria
    My Father was born on November 18, 1970
  • Mother Mila Chavarria

    Mother Mila Chavarria
    My Mother was born on March 6, 1973
  • Savage was born

    Savage was born
    I was born on August 2, 2002 best known as "World-wide Savage Day"