The struggle for equality that African-Americans faced in America after 1865

By benpolin

  • After slavery in the south

    Slavery was now illegal everywhere in the United States
  • Period: to

    African American stuggles

  • Seperate but Equal

    Most southern states were beggining to have the first segregation laws.

  • The NAACP is made

    There is now a group that will fight for black rights, and equality

  • Marcus Garvey

    Garvey had brought his university to support the African-Americans to the United States.

  • Brown v. The board of education

    Oliver Brown fights the board of education, in saying the black schools and white schools are treated differently and the afican-american schools have much worse conditions

  • Emmett Till

    Emmitt Till, is supposedly whistling at a caucasion women and is "disobeying" the Jim Crow laws. He is later beaten and shot to death by the lady's husband and brother-in-law. No justice is brought to the men

  • Rosa Parks leads the bus boycott

    Brave Rosa Parks refusing to let a white man make her move her seat on the bus. She is arrested, and the African-Americans start to boycott the bus company

  • Bombing of the Birmingham Church

    The KKK had set a bomb in the african american, Birmingham church and 4 african american girls were killed