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Civil Rights Timeline

  • thirteenth amendment

    it was an amendment used to abolish slavery.
  • fourteenth amendment

    Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship
  • fifteenth amendment

    it prohibits the goverment from denying a citizenthe right to vote
  • plessy vs ferguson

    the decision in the jurispdence of the US requiring racial segregation
  • integration of the armed forces

    they restore segregation in school systems and military
  • brown vs board

    it was an establishment of seperate blacks and whites going to schools.
  • emett till is murdered

    he was kileed from flirting with a white woman.
  • Rosa Parks and the montgomery bus boycott

    rosa parks refused to give up a seat to a white man she was arrested.
  • SCLC founded

    it was a civil rights organization
  • Little Rock Nine

    african american school that prevented students from entering the racialy segregated school.
  • greensboro sit-ins

    a series of nonviolent protests
  • SNCC

    it was an organization of the civil rights movement.
  • kennedy becomes president

    john f kennedy wins the election and becomes pesident
  • Freedom Rides

    freedom rides they were helping to make a cause for desegregation
  • James meredith

    he was a inspiring figure in the civil rights movement he was a polotician and writer.
  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail

    The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws
  • i have a dream speech

    i have a dream speech by martin luther king
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson

    often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963
  • The Twenty-fourth Amendment

    prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women
  • The Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders involve the lynching of James Earl Chaney

    Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner by white Mississippians during the American Civil Rights Movement.
  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S
  • The Selma to Montgomery marches

    also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965, that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. All three marches were attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery where the Alabama capitol is located
  • Malcolm X May 19, 1925

    born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ‎), was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
  • The Black Panther Party

    was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Stokely Carmichael

    was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1968

    also known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, (Pub.L. 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin