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Designed to ensure equality for newly freed slaves and ban slavery and involuntary servitude, with the exception of punishment. -
An institute founded by Booker T. Washington to train teachers and is a historically black school.
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Plessy v Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that stated that "separate but equal" laws were constitutional and that racial segregation was allowed. This was important to the civil rights movement because it stood for over half a century until Brown v Board of Education in 1954. -
The NAACP was created in 1909 in response to violence against African Americans throughout the country. -
The amendment that denied states from denying the right to vote for citizens based on color, race, and others. This gave voting rights to African Americans and also women. -
A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. This was a large step forward in terms of the elimination of racial segregation. -
A boycott against the racial discrimination in the public transit system. A historic event in the timeline of the civil rights movement. -
It established a commission on civil rights to investigate violations regarding civil rights and also created a civil rights department in the Department of Justice. -
9 African American students were trying to go to school but were blocked by officers and a crowd of white people throwing and shouting. -
Civil Rights Activists who rode buses to segregated Southern US to challenge the non-enforcement of recently created laws. -
This amendment outlawed states from denying voting rights based on if poll tax had been paid. -
An act that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. This was a great step because it not only outlawed discrimination based on color, but also on sex. -
3 protest marches performed in defiance of segregationist repression. Also a historic event in the civil rights movement timeline. -
An act that outlawed discriminatory voting practices and was a large step in the right direction in terms of removing racial discrimination. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference in order to give younger African Americans a voice in the civil rights movement. -
In 1967, Thrugood Marshall became the first African American to serve as Supreme Court judge and was nominated by President Johnson. -
MLK was assasinated and it was believed that it was a conspiracy involving the US government, and others. -
A proposed amendment that was made to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens, regardless of if they are male or female. -
In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan as the first women in higher court. -
Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court, as the first Hispanic person in the court.
