Civil Rights Timeline

By dawson_deall

  • EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

    Freed slaves

  • President Abe relieves Ambrose Burnsides of the US from command of the army protomac

  • General "fighting joe" defeated by Robert E Lee's army

  • West Virginia

    West Virginia becomes 35th state to enter the US although they are the first state to enter where the terms slave and free no longer matter

  • General B.B tries to split General W.R

    General Braxton Brogg tries to split General William Rosecrans forces as they try to return to the safety of Chattanooga

  • Gettysburg Address

    Abraham give the famous speach called the Gettysburg address

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    approving racial segragation in facalities

  • Brown vs Board Of Education Of Topeka KS

    allowed seperate but equal public facilites

  • CHICAGON EMMETT TILL IS KILLED FOR WHISTILING AT A WHITE WOMEN

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man in the white section of the bus

  • US Supreme court rules that the segregation of Montgomery Alabama buses are unconstitutional

  • Civil Rights Act

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