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• 13th Amendment (1865)
The Thirteenth Amendment officially outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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Civil Rights Timeline
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• 14th Amendment (1868)
Its Citizenship Clause provides definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States -
• 15th Amendment (1870)
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
• Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896)
Plessy v. Ferguson, requirined racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." -
19th ammendment
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. -
• Executive Order of 1948
Executive Order of 1948 is an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial segregation in the armed forces -
• Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat (1955)
Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. -
• Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system -
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. -
• 24th Amendment (1964)
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 -
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. -
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure -
• Civil Rights Act of 1968
provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin
