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-It ended Slavery in the United States
-Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865
-This was important because it secured the equality of humans -
-An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons
- The 14th Amendment was important because it was giving equal rights for all -
-The Fifteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's "race, color, or previous origin of country".
-Passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote
-Its Importance is all men can vote now, even African Americans -
-The case was brought about when train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks -This case was important because it set back the movement towards civil rights
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-The Mendez vs. Westminster case challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California
-It decided that the segregation of Mexican people into separate schools was not right
-It was important because it was the first case to deem school segregation not right and influenced similar results in the future -
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In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case court deemed the segregation of schools not right
-Many of the Court decisions influenced Civil Rights Movements in the 50’s and 60’s
-The Warren Court was important to civil rights, judicial power, and federal power
-This case was important in prohibiting the denial of equal protection of laws to any person -
In 1955 African Americans sat in the back half of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama
-On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person, and she was arrested and fined
-She was important for standing up against discrimination and was an inspiration in the civil rights movement -
-It was a protest from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956 during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating
-It was important because it was one of the first large protests against segregation -
-The March on Washington was organized by Bayard Rustin and was scheduled for August 28,1963
-It was a walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial to fight for jobs and freedom and honor Abraham Lincoln
-It was important in demanding rights and desegregation which was an important event in the civil rights movement -
-Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington in 1963
-This led to his title as Man of the Year and then the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
-The speech was important as a successful protest and one of the most important moments of the civil rights movement -
-On September 15, 1963 a bomb killed four young girls and injured other people at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
-This was important because people were so upset that it caused violence and protest which brought attention to the situation -
-The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and changed the United States forever
-After years of protests and the civil rights movement gaining importance, the dream of equal rights and equal treatment was established and anti-discrimination laws ensured equal treatment for all people
-This was important because it had been fought for what seemed like forever and now it received the attention and results it deserved -
-On March 7, 1965 civil rights marchers walked to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to fight suppression
-They were blocked and beaten by police but eventually reached Montgomery on March 25th
-It was important because people fought for their rights and which helped change towards equality -
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on August 6, 1965
-The Voting Rights Act guaranteed the right to vote for African Americans and banned literacy tests as a requirement for voting
-This was very important because it gave African Americans more opportunity and ability to participate in politics -
-Thurgood Marshall was appointed as a US Supreme Court Justice on August 30, 1967
-This was important because he was the first black man to sit on the bench of the court
-This was important because of the social progress it made and was a huge step towards black representation and equality. -
-President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to give equal housing opportunity to all people
-It prevented discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or sex
-It was important because it was the last big legislative achievement in the civil rights movement