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13th Amendment
This amendment was established to abolish slavery. "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 jurisdiction.". Abraham Lincon passed this with the help of congrass as well. -
Ku Klux Klan
The KKK was founded in May to Early June of the year 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee by a group of confederate soldiers. This is a group of people in a secret clan who kill and have racist actions toward any race besides the caucasian race. This is an esspesually dangerous kind of people or clan because they are not afraid to kill a person based off of race. These people are relentless and will do what ever they feel makes them think that they are in the right for killing these people. -
14th Amendment
This Amendment gave EVERY man, Black or white, protected voting rights and to make it set in stone that EVERY man who was colored had citizenship. -
15th Amendment
This amendment made it to you couldn't denying a persons voting rights based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People </a>This is a non-profit organization to help fight against racial prejudice. The NAACP stands for <a href='http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NAACP' > -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave women the rights to vote. The NOW organization had a a lot to do with this amendment getting passed. -
Malcom X
When Malcom was younger he was very troubled, His father diying when he was only a child and his mother being omitted into a psych ward in his early teen years he became a problem child. When he got older he went into prison and while he was there he joined an organization called the NOI (Nation Of Islam). They told him that the Black community was to uprise against the White. Soon after discovering so many lies with in them he left the organization and was killed a year later because of secrets -
Jackie Robinson
when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947.This man was the first African American to play in major league baseball. He is an Iconic Legend. He broke through the barrier of colored people when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. -
Executive Order 9981
This executive order was passed by Harry S. Truman in order to abolish any racial predudice. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
In officeJanuary 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
LBJ became president after JFK's assasination. He previously was a congrass man until he ran for vice president durring the 1961 election. After that election he became the next president and helped pass a law that would give every colores man woman and child equal rights for, well, everything. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
MLKJ was one of the most famsou people of the civil rights movemnet because He was the one that got every one or most people to change their minds about colored people. Mainly because of his "I Have A Dream" speach that has inspiered so many and still inspieres people todya. King Essentually became the civil rights leared because of his outstanding love and kindness toward everyone as well as his want for change in the country. -
Rosa Parks
This woman is amazing because she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. she was fined $10 and a $4 court fee. Essentually she lost the court session but she won over so many more people to the movemnet. -
SCLC
This organization could be traced all the way back to the The Montgomery Bus Boycott where Rosa Parks didn't want to give up her seat to a white man after a long days of work. The SCLC stands for the Southern Christian Leadership Confrence. nad was established some time in December of 1955 and began a nation wide spread accross the United States. -
Civil Rights Act 1957
This amendment made it to where anyone caught not giving people the freedom to do what the these amendments say they can do will indeed be punished. -
Civil Rights Act 1957
This as passed in order to punish those who denied the rights given to the people who were fighting for thoes rights. -
24th Amendment
This amendment was meant to protect the voting rights of people regardless of weather they are able to pay poll taxes or not. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
This outlawed any form of segregation of women or colored people. So anyone caught could be sent to prison. -
Black Panther Party
This group of people was established in 1966 in Oakland, California. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale are the original founders of this party for self-defence against other people like the KKK or even Government officials Like police officers and even the General public. In the picture you will see that these men are the original six Black Panthers. -
NOW
Abbreviated for the national organization for women, this was made to give women the same rights as men. And to be able to vote and work and even to join the military. -
Thurgood Marshall
He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.This man was the first Afircan American to be appointed supreme court Justice. He was also the 69th supreme court justice. He became the Justice and served Congrass from October 1967 to October 1991 -
AIM
Minneapolis, Minn., in 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, and George Mitchell.AIM is the American Indian Movement. This movement was fromed by the Natives because the government threw them out of the reservations and displaced them. After this the American Indians were outraged and protested on alcatraz Island. After many years of protest the government finally gave in and got them out of the displacemnet capms they put them in. -
Barac Obama
Became the first african american to become president. He was elected in the 2008 presidential election.
