RCD Unit 4 Task #2: Civil Rights Movement Timeline

  • Congress passes the 1st civil rights act

    was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
  • 14th amendment

    Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, this included formerly enslaved person, they were able to get equal rights under the law.
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    CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TIMELINE

  • 15th amendment

    Protected the rights of citizens in the United States, to vote regardless of race, color, or cultural background/ previous occupation
  • The 1st women's suffrage amendment was introduced in congress, vut was defeated

    the first federal women's suffrage amendment was introduced but was soundly defeated later in the first full Senate vote
  • Plessy v Ferguson

    "decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine"
  • NAACP is founded

    their mission is to ensure the political, educational, equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminate race prejudice.
  • 19th amendment

    prohibits the unites states and its states from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex.
  • Shelly v Kreamer

    "held that restrictive covenants in real property deeds which prohibited the sale of property to non-Caucasians unconstitutionally violate the equal protection provision of the Fourteenth Amendment."
  • Brown v Board of Education

    The decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.
  • Rosa parks refuses to move

    Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man on the bus, this resulted to her arrest and the rise in the Civil Rights movement of the 60's
  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
  • NOW: National Organization of Women

    an organization of women who were dedicated to actively challenging sex discrimination in all areas of American society.
  • Green v County School Board of New Kent County

    a “freedom-of-choice” provision in a Virginia school board's desegregation plan was unacceptable
  • Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg board of education

    upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States.
  • Proposition 209- California

    amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity,