civil rights movements

  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    abolshed slavery
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    adressed citizenship
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    diffrent races can now vote
  • plessy vs Ferguson

    plessy vs Ferguson
    court case that says segeration is legal
  • Wilmington coup

    Wilmington coup
    rioters over threw a govermnent
  • formation of the NAACP

    formation of the NAACP
    a group made to stop segergation
  • Truman desegregation the US Military

    Truman desegregation the US Military
    president truman signed a bill saying the military had to desegerate
  • brown vs board of education of Topeka

    brown vs board of education of Topeka
    made racial segergation in schools unconstintusnal
  • Emmett till murder

    Emmett till murder
    a 14 year old boy is murdered after whisting at a white women
  • Rosa parks arrested

    Rosa parks arrested
    rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested
  • little rock 9

    little rock 9
    9 black kids were put into an all white school
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act
    an act of protecting the civil rights
  • greensboro sit in

    greensboro sit in
    4 black men sat in a non violent protest in a white lunch spot
  • freedom rides

    freedom rides
    a series of bus rides organized by core
  • march on Washington

    march on Washington
    mlk i had a dream speech
  • civil rights act of 1964

    civil rights act of 1964
    outlawed discrimination based on race
  • march from Selma to montgomery

    march from Selma to montgomery
    a march lead by mlk
  • voting rights of 1965

    voting rights of 1965
    prohibits racial discrimination for voting
  • assassination of MLK

    assassination of MLK
    mlk gets shot and dies
  • Shawn vs charlotte Mecklenburg schools

    Shawn vs charlotte Mecklenburg schools
    the supreme court upheld the using of busses to segregate