Civil Rights Timeline

  • 14th Amendment (ALL)

    14th Amendment (ALL)

    This gave people of the U.S. rights of citizenship and equal protection of the law.
  • 15th Amendment (African Americans)

    15th Amendment (African Americans)

    The right to vote should not be denied on account of race or color. This gave African American males the right to vote.
  • Tuskegee Institute created (African Americans)

    Tuskegee Institute created (African Americans)

    Booker T. Washington founded this and it was the foundation for a normal school for colored teachers. This gave vocational training and provided students with academic.
  • NAACP created (African Americans)

    NAACP created (African Americans)

    The NAACP, or the National Association for the
    Advancement of Colored People, event was a civil rights organization made to help fight for the rights of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois was the key founder.
  • 19th Amendment (Women)

    19th Amendment (Women)

    The right to vote should not be denied on account of sex. This allowed women to vote.
  • Executive Order 9981 (African Americans)

    Executive Order 9981 (African Americans)

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

    Brown v. Board of Education (African Americans)

    Public schools were integrated. It also overturns Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed (African Americans)

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

    This event happened in an attempt to advance civil rights in a non-violent manner. A key member was, MLK.
  • Little Rock 9 (African Americans)

    Little Rock 9 (African Americans)

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

    Civil Rights Act of 1957 (African Americans)

    President Eisenhower established the Civil Rights Section of the
    Justice Department and gave the power to federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
  • Greensboro, NC Sit-ins (African Americans)

    Greensboro, NC Sit-ins (African Americans)

    4 African American students sat at a whites only lunch counter
    and refused to leave after being denied service. This was a protest racial segregation.
  • Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicanos)

    Chicano Movement (Mural Movement) (Chicanos)

    This was a Mexican-American civil rights movement. Artists began using housing projects, the walls of city buildings, schools, and churches to illustrate Mexican-American culture.
  • Freedom Riders (African Americans)

    Freedom Riders (African Americans)

    Civil rights activists would ride interstate buses into the segregated
    southern U.S. They challenged and protested local laws that disregarded integration.
  • Cesar Chavez (ALL)

    Cesar Chavez (ALL)

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

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

    Dr. King defended the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
  • March on Washington: “I have a dream”speech (ALL)

    March on Washington: “I have a dream”speech (ALL)

    Dr. King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the U.S.
  • 24th Amendment (ALL)

    24th Amendment (ALL)

    This Amendment prohibits the poll tax in elections.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 (ALL)

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 (ALL)

    LBJ outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or
    national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration
    requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and
    public accommodations.
  • Black Panthers (African Americans)

    Black Panthers (African Americans)

    Political organization founded to challenge police brutality against
    the African American community.
  • American Indian Movement (AIM) (Native Americans)

    American Indian Movement (AIM) (Native Americans)

    Initially formed to address Native American affirmation, treaty
    issues, spirituality, and leadership while also addressing incidents of
    police harassment and racism against Natives. Their paramount
    objective is to create "real economic independence for the Indians”.