Civil Rights Movement

By AaronMartinez

  • 13th amendment

    -abolished slavery

  • 14th amendment

    -granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

  • 15th amendment

    -allowed African Americans to vote

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    -New Orleans
    -It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

  • Mendez vs. Westminster School District of Orange County

    -ended Mexican/white school segregation in Orange County
    -started the end of segregation in California then the whole country

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    -Topeka, Kansas
    -ended school segregation