Civil Rights Timeline

By lucas.longacre
  • 13th Amendment (African American)

    13th Amendment (African American)

    Abolished Slavery
  • 14th Amendment (African American, Chicano, Women, Native American)

    14th Amendment (African American, Chicano, Women, Native American)

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law. The 14th amendment has become one of the most used amendments in court to date regarding the equal protection clause.
  • 15th Amendment (African Americans, Chicano, Native American)

    15th Amendment (African Americans, Chicano, Native American)

    Right to vote not denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The 15th amendment gave African Americans and other people of color the right to vote.
  • Tuskegee Institute created (African American)

    Tuskegee Institute created (African American)

    A school for African Americans in the city of Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (African American)

    Plessy v. Ferguson (African American)

    The Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not violate equal protection laws. “Equal but Separate”
  • NAACP created (African American)

    NAACP created (African American)

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights group founded by W. E. B. Du Bois that is still around today.
  • 19th Amendment (Women)

    19th Amendment (Women)

    Right to vote not denied by gender. The 15th Amendment gave American women the right to vote
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed (Women)

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed (Women)

    The amendment was first proposed by the National Women's political party in 1923 and was meant to prohibit discrimination based on gender. Was later defeated in 1972.
  • Executive Order 9981 (African American, Chicano, Native American)

    Executive Order 9981 (African American, Chicano, Native American)

    Issued by President Truman, the order ended discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in the United States armed forces. A big step to ending discrimination around the country
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    Brown v. Board of Education (African American)

    Overturned Plessy v Ferguson making segregation in public schools illegal. Forced public schools to allow colored people, leading to better education for people of color.
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott (African American)

    Political and social protest against segregation on the public transport system of Montgomery, Alabama. Later led to bus boycotts around the nation. Part of the Civil Rights movement.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed (African American)

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

    SCLC is an African American civil rights organization. Strongly associated with the Civil Rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr as the organization's first president.
  • Little Rock 9 (African American)

    Little Rock 9 (African American)

    A group of 9 African American students who were enrolled at Little Rock Central High School who were prevented by Orval Faubus from entering their school.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 (African American)

    Civil Rights Act of 1957 (African American)

    President Eisenhower 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 American)

    Greensboro, NC Sit-ins (African American)

    Four African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter
    and refused to leave after being denied service. Protesting racial
    segregation.
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed (African American)

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

    Student political organization civil rights movement group. Used
    nonviolent tactics.
  • Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicano)

    Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicano)

    Mexican-American civil rights movement.Artists began using the
    walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to
    depict Mexican-American culture. (1960s)
  • Freedom Riders (African American)

    Freedom Riders (African American)

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated
    southern U.S. Challenged and protested local laws that ignored
    integration.
  • Cesar Chavez (Chicano)

    Cesar Chavez (Chicano)

    in 1962 co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later
    called the United Farm Workers Union). Was a Latino American
    civil rights activists.
  • Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (African American)

    Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (African American)

    He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism