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Civil Rights Timeline - Josh Howe

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished slavery
  • 14th Amendment

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

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

    Establishes “Separate but equal”
  • 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

    Women's right to vote
  • 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

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

    Integrated public schools. Overturned Plessy v Ferguson
  • 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

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

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

    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 political organization civil rights movement group. Used nonviolent tactics.
  • Chicano (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

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

    He defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism
  • March on Washington: “I have a dream” speech

    He called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the
    U.S.
  • 24th Amendment

    Prohibits poll tax in elections
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    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.
  • March from Selma, Alabama

    MLK led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to Montgomery,
    Alabama where local African Americans had been campaigning for
    voting rights.