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the 13 amendment
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their. january 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.jurisdiction." -
the 14th amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" -
plessy v. ferguson
Plessy (P) attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated “separate but equal” railroad accommodations. Those using facilities not designated for their race were criminally liable under the statute. At trial with Justice John H. Ferguson (D) presiding, Plessy was found guilty on the grounds that the law was a reasonable exercise of the state’s police -
brownVs board of ed
they wer trying to take control of blacks and white in school and put them together -
The pearsail plan
The pearsail plan is when the pepople went to the surperm and they went to the board of education and when the did -
brownvboard of education topeka kansas
The Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. It held that school segregation violated the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The following year the Court ordered desegregation “with all deliberate speed.” -
bus boycott
Dr. Mathin Lather King Jr. decied that black and whites could sit where ever they wanted and rosa parks got aressited then he decied it is time to do something about it so he did he invented the bus boycott . -
montgomery bus boy cott
parked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully -
southern christian leadrenship conference
Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. ‘‘This conference is called,’’ King wrote, with fellow ministers C. K. Steele and Fred Shuttlesworth in January 1957, ‘‘because we have no moral choice, before God, but to delve deeper into the struggle—and to do so with greater reliance on non-violence and with greater unity, coordination, sharing, and Christian understanding’’ -
the little rock nine
the little rock nine is when ther were 4 black pepole that went into this bar with all whites and they kicked them out and they went into the bar and then the wites came up with the name little rock nine and they were always callled them that those 4 black men adnthe learseer was wight people they were the ones that went into the bar in 1957 and were called the little rock nine baecause the whites came up with
