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The Emancipation Proclamation was an order issued by President Lincoln during the Civil War. While it did not completely abolish slavery, it did abolish slavey in certain areas and help set the building blocks for the 13th Amendment.
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The 13th Amendment was a HUGE step in the Civil Rights movement for slavery. It completely abolished slavery in all the states and gave African-Americans a new beginning.
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This amendment finally granted all African-Americans their citizenship.
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This amendment granted every race the right to vote.
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It declared that racial segregation was required in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
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This event was a landmark Supreme Court Case in which the laws separating public schools between white and black people was deemed unconstitutional. This was a big step in the civl rights movement.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white women on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Supreme Court rules that Alabama and Montgomery's laws of segregated buses is unconstitutional.
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African-Americans used a form of non-violent protests in order to reverse a store's policy of racial segregation.
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Signed by JFK requiring government contractors to take "affirmative action" when employing people. This policy is still around today and is highly debated.
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The first Freedom Ride occured where civil rights activist were going into the segregated south to try and challenge non-enforncement of key Supreme Court decisions.
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Martin Luther King delivers one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history in front of over 250,000 people in Washington, where he calls for an end to racism in America.
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This amendment banned the poll tax for federal elections.
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This outlawed any form of discrimination and segregation on any race in any public facilities.
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This outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been used against African-Americans for a long time.
