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13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery [African Americans] -
14th Amendment
Provided equal protection from both the state and the US [Everyone] -
15th Amendment
Removed roadblocks preventing African Americans from voting [African Americans] -
Tuskegee Institute Created
Founded by Booker T. Washington [African Americans] -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation is legal [African Americans] -
NAACP created
Founded by W.E.B. to fight for Civil Rights [African Americans] -
19th Amendment
Women can vote [Women] -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed
Discrimination of gender is illegal [Women] -
Executive Order 9981
Desegregated the Military [Everyone] -
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson Overturned [African Americans] -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
People refused to ride the bus [African Americans] -
January Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Non-violent protests [African Americans] -
Little Rock 9
National guard escorts students to school [African Americans] -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Protection of Voting Rights [Everyone] -
February Greensboro, NC Sit-ins
Peaceful sit-ins [African Americans] -
April Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Nonviolent protest group [African Americans] -
Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)
Street art protesting for Mexican Americans [Chicano] -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists [African Americans] -
Cesar Chavez
Latino American Farmer civil rights activists [Chicanos] -
April Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Called for an end to racism [Everyone]