Civil Rights Pictorial Timeline

  • 13th Amendment (African-American)

    13th Amendment (African-American)

    This event was the prohibition of slavery. This amendment led to the guarantee that slavery would be abolished
  • 14th Amendment (African-American)

    14th Amendment (African-American)

    It gave citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been freed after the American Civil War.
  • 15th Amendment (African-American)

    15th Amendment (African-American)

    Allowed everyone to vote no matter their race. Gave everybody the right to vote no matter race, color, or previous servitude
  • Tuskegee Institute created (African-American)

    Tuskegee Institute created (African-American)

    Trained teachers in Alabama and provided students with both academic and vocab training. Was built around giving African Americans a good education.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (African-American)

    Plessy v. Ferguson (African-American)

    The case helped the constitution of racial segregation but it included the separate but equal doctrine.
  • NAACP created (African-American)

    NAACP created (African-American)

    create a mission all colored people are equal. They are doing this to ensure political, educational equality's minorities. Their goal is to remove all barriers surrounding colored people.
  • 19th Amendment (Woman)

    19th Amendment (Woman)

    The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed (Woman)

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed (Woman)

    This was proposed by the National Women's Political party where all sexes are equal no matter the circumstance. This party was against all sex discrimination
  • Executive Order 9981 (African-American)

    Executive Order 9981 (African-American)

    President Truman abolished discrimination for race, color, etc, in the military
  • Brown v. Board of Education (African-American)

    Brown v. Board of Education (African-American)

    Integrated public schools, Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott (African-American)

    Montgomery Bus Boycott (African-American)

    Civil Rights protests when African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) (African-American)

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) (African-American)

    It was a conference created by MLK in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South.
  • Little Rock 9 (African-American)

    Little Rock 9 (African-American)

    Governor Orval Faubus denied entry for 9 African American students entering high school, Eisenhower used national guard to protect school
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 (African-American)

    Civil Rights Act of 1957 (African-American)

    The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote
  • Greensboro, NC  Sit-ins (African-African)

    Greensboro, NC Sit-ins (African-African)

    Four African American students protested segregation by sitting at and all-white lunch table and refused to leave after being denied service
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed (African-American)

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed (African-American)

    SNCC coordinated youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism
  • Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicanos)

    Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicanos)

    Mexican American civil rights movement. Artists used building in cities to depict Mexican American culture
  • Freedom riders (African-American

    Freedom riders (African-American

    Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides in the south protesting local segregation laws
  • Cesar Chavez (Chicanos)

    Was a civil rights activist and co-founded the national farm workers association
  • Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”(African-Americans)

    He defends non violent resistance to racism
  • March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech (African-American)

    A call for equality and freedom, the speech became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement as well as one of the most iconic speeches in American history.
  • 24th amendment (All)

    Prohibits the poll tax in elections
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 (African-American)

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
  • March from Selma, Alabama (African-American)

    They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    LBJ stopped the discriminatory voting practices used in many southern states after the civil war
  • Black Panthers

    Founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community
  • Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court

    He was a lawyer for the NAACP that argued for Brown v. Board of Ed appointed by LBJ. First African American to be on the Supreme Court
  • MLK assassinated

    James Earl Ray killed MLK in Memphis, TN outside his hotel room
  • American Indian Movement (AIM) (Native-Americans)

    A movement that sought to end American Indian harassment and racism against Natives
  • Sandra Day O’Connor appointed to the Supreme Court

    The first female justice in the supreme court, changed gender rights and was appointed by Reagan
  • Sonia Sotomayor appointed to the Supreme Court

    First appointed Mexican American to the supreme court, fought for same-sex marriage and was Appointed by Obama