History of Civil Rights

Women tried to push for right to vote at a convention

Apr 7, 1848

SC ruled that equal protection clause doesn't apply to women

Apr 7, 1873

Women gained suffrage

Apr 7, 1920

Barrage of law school cases came to SC on case by case basis

Apr 7, 1938

Small vicroties were won

SC ruled that the "equal" law school built for AA in TX was not equal enough

Apr 7, 1950

Brown v. Board of Education

Dec 1, 1953

postponed from 1952, extended the 14th's reach and applied it to ALL NOT on a case by case basis. Was not readily enforced until Brown II.

Rosa Parks refused to give up seat

Apr 7, 1955

Civil rights leaders used this as a spark and boycotted bus company for more than a year

Sit in at Greensboro Restaurant

Feb 1, 1960

Court upheld FL ruling that women are exempted from jury duty

Apr 7, 1961

Woman was convicted of beating her husband to death because he cheated on her, said that her rights were violated because she was convicted by all male jury.

Other sit ins- over 70,000 participants and 3,000 arrests

Apr 7, 1961

Freedom riders began. Beaten up, firebombed, everything TVed

May 4, 1961

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Apr 1, 1963

Kennedy's speech on Civil Rights coercing Congress to action

Jun 11, 1963

"I have a dream"

Aug 28, 1963

SC shifted focus from de jure segregation to de facto

Apr 7, 1971

de jure: inside the law
de facto: outside the law, such as housing patterns

Places with large black popuations had to vote with defective machines

Apr 7, 1990

FL voting mess up

Apr 7, 2000

Many people were not allowed to vote because their names were "accidently" placed on a felony ist. Took a whjile to clear names, most names were of minorities or AA. Vote in FL was decided by a few hundred votes

SC invalidated volutary desegregation plan in an attempt to become color blind

Apr 7, 2007