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Dred Scott vs Sanford
Ruled that African Americans were not permitted to be United States citizens; therefore African Americans had no standing to sue in federal courts. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Black codes approved
these laws intended to restrict the autonomy of African Americans in order to force them to work in a labor economy. -
ku klux klan
The original Ku Klux Klan was first established in Pulaski, Tennessee after the end of the American Civil War by General Nathan Bedford Forrest and other Confederate veterans. The new group sought to oppose the extension of voting rights to Blacks, and other measures to end segregation. -
13th Amendment
Abolition of slavery -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed Blacks basic economic rights to contract, sue, and own property.
The intention of this law was to protect all persons in the United States, including Blacks, in their civil rights. -
14th Amendment ratified
Overruled Dred Scott v. Sanford. It guaranteed that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside -
15th Amendment
Suffrage (Voting Rights) for African-American men. -
Booker T Washington
Booker T. Washington, a slave from Virginia, graduated with honors from the Hampton Institute, a black vocational school. He went on to make a difference in the lives of many black people. -
Jim Crow laws legislated
The conservative white Democrats legislated Jim Crow Laws, separate the white and black races. -
Exodusters
A mass migration of thousands of African Americans to Kansas was organized by Benjamin "Pap" Singleton. -
civil rights act struck down
The Supreme Court overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and declared that the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit discrimination by private individuals or businesses. -
Lynching
at least 1,132 blacks were burned alive or lynched in the United States for violating Jim Crow Laws and for being black -
Louisiana Law
separate car act required railroads to separate the white and black races as they traveled on railway cars -
Plessy v. Ferguson " separate but equal"
strengthened the ability of southern states to pass JIM CROW LAWS discriminating against African Americans and other minorities.
supreme court case upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions. -
National Negro Business League
founded in Boston in 1900 by Booker T. Washington to promote the interests of African-American businesses. The main goal of the National Negro Business League was "to promote the commercial and financial development of the Negro." -
Niagara Movement
founded by Theodore Roosevelt launch to challenge the 1896 plessy vs Ferguson case FORE RUNNER OF THE NAACP
he purpose and main goal of the Niagara Movement was to fight for black civil rights -
NAACP
elimination of racial discrimination, fair housing and employment through political lobbying,social change legal action and education to improve the quality of life for African Americans
founded in response of discrimination -
NAACP Magazine
The Crisis, the official monthly news publication of the organization, is established. This monthly news magazine would feature events and issues impacting African-Americans throughout the United States. Many writers published short stories, novel excerpts and poems in its pages. -
Federal Segregation
Wilson administration begins government-wide segregation of work places, rest-rooms and lunch rooms. -
Gong Lum V. rice
The Supreme Court held that a Mississippi school district may require a Chinese-American girl to attend a segregated Black school rather than a White school. The Court applied the "separate but equal" formulation of Plessy v. Ferguson to the public schools. -
"Don't buy where you can't work"
NAACP-supported “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” economic boycott movement began with the goal of securing better jobs for African Americans -
NAACP Provides & Scottsboro Boys
the organization began providing economic and legal support for African-Americans going through criminal injustice. In 1931, the NAACP offered legal representation to the Scottsboro Boys, nine young adults who were falsely accused of raping two white women. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund provided defense of the Scottsboro Boys and brought national attention to the case -
Integrating U.S Armed Forces
Although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces -
Brown V. Board of Education
Supreme Court bans school segregation. First "White Citizens" council forms in Mississippi in response to Supreme Court's Brown decision. -
Rosa Parks
refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
This act was considered civilly disobedient and led to a series of legislative decisions contributing to the growth of the Civil rights movement. -
March on washington for jobs and freedom
The main goal of the march was to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans. At the march, Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in a number of settings: voting, public accommodations, public facilities, public education, federally-assisted programs, and employment and establishes the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). -
King is assassinated
king was fatally shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee -
Barack Obama
becomes the first African American to win the U.S. presidential
race.
