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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Civil War
The war began when confederate warships bombarded union soliders at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. -
13th Admenment
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, -
Jackie Robinson
By breaking the color barrier in baseball, the nation's preeminent sport, he courageously challenged the deeply rooted custom of racial segregation in both the North and the South. -
Brown Vs. Broad of education
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till a 14 vear old boy was kidnapped from his great uncles home in Money, Mississippi. he was later beaten and then shot in the head for supposively flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks bus boycott
She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for white people. when the bus became full the diriver ordered her and three other african americans to sit in the back of the bus. she never moved. -
sixteenth Street baptist church
the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Passage of the Act ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. -
Assassanation of Martin Luther King
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot.
