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The 13th Amendment
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Meaning that you cant be inslaved or put to work by anyone other than the courts. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans had to by Montgomery, Alabama city ordinance to sit in the back of the buses and to give their seats to the whites if the front of the bus, reserved for whites, was full. One day Rosa Parks was on her way home when the "white section" of the bus got full and the bus driver asked her and three other "colored" prople to move out of the seats 2 of then moved but parks stayed in her seat. she got arrested and find $10 plus $4 in court fees. -
Martin Luther King
Put together the Southern Christian Leadership Conference witch became a mojor key in the civil rights movment and its purpose was to have nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Students fight back
All-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. 9 colored students are blocked from going into the school by Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to help of the students, who are now known as the "Little Rock Nine." -
James Meredith
After a legal battle, African-American man, James Meredith tried to enroll into University of Mississippi but Chaos broke out with riots leaving 2 dead and 100's wounded and others arrested after the Kennedy administration called out Almost 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to get ahold of everything. -
The March
200,000 Americans got together in Washington D.C. for a political rally, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Put together by civil rights and religious groups, this was designed to show people....the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march which was a key moment in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. -
The 24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment took off the poll tax, that had been put in 11 southern states. so now poor blacks are abole to vote.
