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Civil Rights Timeline

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abolishes slavery.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection of the law
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color (African American males right to vote)
  • Tuskegee Institute created

    Tuskegee Institute created

    Founded by Booker T. Washington, “established a normal school for
    colored teachers”. Provided students with academic and vocational training.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Establishes “Separate but equal”
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    Key founder: W.E.B. Du Bois. National Association for the
    Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help
    fight for African American rights.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Right to vote should not be denied on the account of sex (Women get the right to vote)
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed

    Proposed by the National Women's political party, it was to provide
    for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the
    basis of sex. Defeated in 1972.
  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981

    President Truman abolished discrimination "on the basis of race,color, religion or national origin" in the military (integrated units)
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Integrated public schools. Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Civil Rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city
    buses protesting segregated seating. Key person: Rosa Parks
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed

    Advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. Key member: MLK
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    Governor Orval Faubus prevented 9 African American students
    from entering high school. President Eisenhower uses National
    Guard to protect students' entry into the school.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    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

    Greensboro, NC Sit-ins

    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

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed

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

    Chicano Movement (Mural Movement)

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

    Freedom Riders

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

    Cesar Chavez

    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”

    Dr. King’s: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

    He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism