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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the civil war and it declared that all persons held as slaves were free in the Confederated States(Haney, 2017).
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Racial Discrimination occurs around the world everyday. In this timeline I am choosing to focus on America's history of civil rights and how far we as a country have come from when human beings were enslaved. I hope that my audience can see the progress the United States has made and how far we still have to go in order to reduce inequalities around the world.
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The 15th Amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote. This is only a small part of how America began to decrease racial discrimination.
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The Supreme Court declared "separate but equal." This court case is a part of America's historical events but it was not a happy day for those fighting for equality and this is why we have to continue to help reduce inequalities.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt executive order opened national defense and government jobs to people no matter race, creed or national origin (Kendi, 2017).
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The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. Which overruled the "separate but equal" principle from 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson.
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Even thought all Americans had already gained the right to vote, many southern states were making it difficult for voters of color to vote by making them take literacy tests, which were almost impossible to pass(Haney, 2017).
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The civil rights movement took a violent turn in Alabama while 600 peaceful protesters participated in Selma to Montgomery March. As the protester approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge they were blocked by police and viciously beaten and teargassed sending dozens to the hospital(Editors, 2020).
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The civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner was assassinated at his hotel room balcony, pushing additional civil right laws. We celebrate this brave man one a day each year, because his life was taken while trying to achieve reduce Inequalities and racial discrimination.
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Only a few days after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. the Fair Housing Act became a law and prevented housing discrimination based on race, sex, national origin and religion.
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Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act by overriding President Reagan's veto, allowing the expansion of non-discrimination laws.
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2 years after Obama's election, the entire criminal justice system was put on trail, exposing the racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting right of ex-prisoners (Kendi, 2017).
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The reconstruction era of the federal law that gives all person the same right to enforce contracts. Comcast is an African American own company and it wasn't being given the same rights in the United States as many white Americans(Editors, 2020).
