Period 5 By peter.shaughnessy@ww-p.org 1865 13th Amendment abolished slavery 1866 K.K.K. 1868 Defined Citizenship for African Americans 1870 first African American senator 1877 Jim Crow Laws 1883 Civil Right cases 1889 Lynch Mobs 1909 NAACP Period: 1910 to 1930 The Great Migration 1916 First Segregated Church 1929 The Great Depression 1931 The Scottsboro Trial 1947 Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball 1952 Brown v The Board of Education 1957 Desegregation in first high school 1960 Ruby Bridges attended an all-white school 1963 MLK Speech "I Have A Dream: 1963 Birmingham Bombing 1963 March in Washington 1964 Civil Rights Acts makes discrimination illegal 1967 Thurgood Martial becomes first African American supreme court justice 1968 MLK assassinated 2008 Obama First African American President 2013 Black Lives Matter founded