JIm Crow Timeline

By kwyttle
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    Jim Crow

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln let the slaves free.

  • MLK's Speech.

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Admendment that abolished slavery. Ratified December 6th, 1865.
  • !4th Amendment

    !4th Amendment

    Passed in 1866 but adopted by the constitution on July 9th, 1868. Gave blacks American Citizenship.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Lawfully gave Blacks equal treatment in public.

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

  • NAACP founded

  • Gaines vs Canada

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    Seperated schools, between whites and blacks was unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Congress Passing The Civil Rights Act

    Johnson signed the bill after going through all the trouble of the past bills.

  • Voting Rights Act passed

  • Thurgood Marshall sworn into Supreme Court

  • MLK's Assination