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1865- 13th amendment
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, -
1868-14th amendment
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves. -
1870-15th amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
1896-Plessey v. Ferguson
It upheld racial segregation laws for public places as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – "separate but equal". -
1948-Truman desegregates the military
Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services." -
1954-brown v. Board of Education
Brown vs the board of education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
1955-Rosa parks/ Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks arrest on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
1957-Little Rock Crisis
Little rock was where they desegregated schools first the blacks went to the white schools to be beaten up and led to them being protected by the military -
1960- Sit in movement
The sit in movement was when people black and white were talked about hit spit at and had acid sprayed at them and they did it to prove that they were not bad people not animals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd3hih00AwE
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1961- Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United -
1962- James Meredith and Ole Miss
n African American man, attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962. Chaos soon broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
1963-Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The letter was to defend the strategy of non violent resistant -
1963- March on washington
It was a march to help get jobs and freedom for African Americans -
1964- Freedom Summer
Freedom summer was a project to help get as many African American voters they can get -
1964- Civil rights act
The civil rights act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination -
1965-Selma march
The Selma march was 3 long march from Selma to Montgomery. -
1965- Voting right act
It was signed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels that prevent African Americans from exercising there right to vote signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson
