Civil Rights timeline

By Savion Arnold #24
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    Emancipation proclamation was to set the slaves free.

  • The 13 amendment was to put a end to the slavery

  • The 14 amendment granted due to process.

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    The 15 amendment allowed blacks and slaves to vote.

  • Congress passed a third civil rights act in response to white people buisness owners and rulers who refused to make facilities do to black people.

  • The U.S. supreme court desicon in Plessy v Ferguson up held a 1890 statue mandating racially segregated but equal rail rod cars.

  • The national association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)was discovered by a muti-racial groups of activists of New York.

  • The U.S. supreme court ruled in the landmark case Brown v. Board of education.

  • Emmet Till was kidnapped and beaten and shot and dumped in a river.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference comprises of Rev. MLKJr. and Charles k. steeple and Fred L. Shuttleworth was etablished

  • 4 black students from colleges was had began a sit-in at a segregated F.W. Woolworth conference with him.

  • James Merideth became the first student to enroll at the university of mississippi

  • Mississippi NAACP field secretary 37 year old was killed outside his in Jackson

  • Amendment 24 put a stop to th poll tax which had originally been instituted in all southern states