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This Amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 it was the Amendment that abolished slavery.
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The 14th Amendment guaranteed African Americans citizenship and all of the other privileges in the U.S. Constitution.
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The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the federal and state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizens race.
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Plessey v Ferguson was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the Constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.
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Truman desegregates the military - Executive order 9981 issued on July 26, 1948 by Presidenr Harry Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in US Armed Forces and led to segregation in the services.
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the United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights movemnet best known for her pivitol role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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After nine African American students were enrolled in Central High in Little Rock Arkansas the governor created a crisis by refusing to allow the students to enter.
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A series of nonviolent protest in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 led to the Woolworth departmnt store chain from racial segregation.
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The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated south.
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James Meredith was the first African American student at the University of Mississippi.
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Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Martin Luther King when he was in Jail where he defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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March on Washing for jobs and freedom took place in Washington DC in 1963. It is where Martin Luther King delivered his speech.
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Freedom Summer was a Summer Project by volunteeers to attempt to register voters of color.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in Public places and banned employment discrimintaion based on race,color,religion,sex or national origin.
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The Selma March to Montgomery was part of a civil rights protest in Alabama. They got only six blocks until they were beaten and tear gased.
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Voting Rights Act is a landmark legislation that prohibits racial discrimination voting.
