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American Civil War (1861-1865)
was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865 -
13th Amendment (1865)
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Reconstruction (1865-1877)
the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy -
14th Amendment (1868)
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States -
15th Amendment (1870)
granted African American men the right to vote -
Jim Crow Laws Start in South (1877)
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public -
Rosa Parks Arrested (1955)
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (1957)
Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (1957)
first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress -
Little Rock Nine (1957)
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Chicano Mural Movement Begins (1960)
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Affirmative Action (1961)
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George Wallace Blocks University of Alabama Entrance (1963)
the Governor of Alabama -
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
a book by Betty Friedan -
March on Washington (1963)
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex -
24th Amendment (1964)
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Malcom X Assassinated (1965)
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United Farm Worker’s California Delano Grape Strike (1965)
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Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court (1967)
hurgood Marshall as the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated (1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist -
Title IX (1972)
a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. -
Roe v. Wade (1973)
protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.