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13th Amendment
Where: United States
-Abolished slavery
-First steps to equality -
14th Amendment
Where: United States
-Citizenship to all people born in the US
-Gave equal civil and legal rights to African-Americans -
15th Amendment
Where: United States
-African-American men granted the right to vote
-Granted the right to vote to all American men -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Where: Louisiana
-A law providing separate railway carriages for the white and colored races
-"Separate but equal" -
Mendez vs Westminster
Where: Orange County, California
-Four Mexican children are denied access to a school
-First case to show that school segregation in unconstitutional -
Period: to
Brown vs Board of Education
Where: Topeka, Kansas
-Separate public schools for white and black students is declared unconstitutional
-Racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause -
Emmett Till
Where: Mississippi
-Murdered for whistling at a white woman
-He was only 14 -
Rosa Parks
Where: Montgomery, Alabama
-Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus
-Starts the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Little Rock High School
Where: Little Rock, Arkansas
-Nine African-American students to be integrated into the school
-The students were tormented -
Malcom X
Where:
-National Minister of the Nation of Islam
-Rejects the nonviolent civil rights movement -
MLK Speech
Where: Washington D.C.
-"I have a dream"
-Largest civil rights demonstration ever -
Birmingham Church Bombing
Where: Birmingham, Alabama
-A bomb at a predominantly black congregation goes off
-Showed the struggle for civil rights -
Freedom Summer
Where: Mississippi
-African-American voter registration
-African-American voter registration rises from 7% to 67% -
Civil Rights Act
Where: United States
-Outlaws the discrimination based on race, national origin, sex, and religion
-Equality -
Selma to Montgomery
Where: Selma to Montgomery
-A protest march for African-American voting rights
-The nation watches as police club and teargas protest -
Loving v. Virginia
Where: Virginia
-Prohibiting interracial marriages is unconstitutional
-Sixteen states are forced to revise their laws -
MLK Assassinated
Where: Memphis, Tennessee
-He was murdered
-Sparks a week of rioting across the country -
Civil Rights Act
Where: United States
-Prohibited the discrimination in the sale, renting, and financing of housing
-Anyone could buy a house