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This amendment outlawed slavery and allowed Congress to enforce it.
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This one overturned Scott v. Stanford and the three-fifths clause as well as making all people born in the United States legal citizens, which can't be denied to anybody.
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Gave African Americans the right to vote.
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He became the first African American man to play major league baseball. Even with all the racist remarks, he didn't retaliate.
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Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to give equal opportunities to everyone no matter the race.
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Fourteen year old, Emmett TIll was Lynched for flirting with a white woman.
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While riding a bus home from work, in Montgomery, Ms. Rosa Parks got asked to move to the back of the bus and she refused. She got arrested because of it.
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Nine African American children walked to Central High School to go to school.
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Four African American college kids sat down in nonviolent protest at a segregated lunch counter.
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The first freedom rides started on this date which were meant to confront Jim Crow Laws
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Another part of a nonviolent protest against racial segregation.
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Dr. King was jailed for violating Alabama's mass demonstration law.
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250,000 citizens from all over the country marched to the White House to protest for jobs and freedom.
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This amendment prohibited the implementation of poll taxes by federal and state governments.
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Covers many areas of discrimination including voting rights and segregation. Passed to protect Laws of African Americans.
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E.E.O.C. was founded to rid of all discrimination within the Government.
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This law guaranteed voting rights to ALL Americans and was the most successful law passed.
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Dr. King was shot in Memphis, Tennessee which caused lots of riots while the idealistic part of civil rights agitation ended.
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This restricted discrimination of public places such as a restaurant.
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The court ruled that the education law of Wisconsin, that a child must attend school at least till they are 16, was unconstitutional when applied to the Amish because it would take away from religious beliefs
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This court case ruled that abortion shouldn't be banned in states.
