Civil rights

Origins of the Civil Rights movement

By delfihp

  • Declaration of Independence

    The American colonists declared their commitment to equality and liberty for The United States of America

  • Creation of the United States

  • Constitution

    Its aim was to establish a balance between the powers of the individual states and of the central government. The also become a federal government.

  • The Republican Party emerges

  • Start of Civil War

    After Lincon was elected president. The Confederacy was formed

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

  • The 13th Amendment

    The Union emerged victorious the 13th amendment to the US constitution was passed by Congress.
    The 13th amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States

  • The Ku Kux Klan foundation

  • Assassination of Lincoln

  • Elections

  • 14th Amendment

    'Equal protection of the law' for all citizens

  • First Jim Crow law passed in Virginia

    Jim Crow laws legalized racial segregation

  • 15th Amendment

    Granted black male suffrage

  • All southern states had ratified the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and thus been readmitted to the Union

  • Poll Tax

    The state of Mississippi introduced a poll tax for those wishing to register to vote
    Southern states foun legal ways to prevent black people from voting

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    It was legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, by a seven-to-one majority, advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws

  • 1400 blacks forced to flee and never return

    1400 blacks were forced to flee and never return from South Carolina because of a rape related newspaper publication by a Black editor

  • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded

    Founder members: Both black and white, including Du Bois
    Objective: Advance justice for African Americans
    The oldest and largest civil rights association (still active today)

  • The great migration began till 1918

    Over 350000 black people migrated to the north, to cities like New York and Chicago. To work in the expanding industries.

  • The US entered WWI

    Blacks joined the armed forces

  • Big increase in lynchings

    Increase in lynchings after WWI

  • Roosevelt become president

  • The US enters WWII

    Nearly a million black americans were called to fight
    When war ended some condtions had improved for blacks

  • March in Washington

    Demonstration by thousands of blacks in the american capital
    Organized by A. Philip Randolph