Timeline

By heykarmen

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    prohibiting slavery

  • Fourteenth Amendment Ratified

    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0749825.html#A0749839People born or naturalized in the U.S.A are citizens. Reaction to Dread Scott case.

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Can't deny a citizen to vote because of race.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Claimed that the Fourteenth amendment equal protection clause was for political, not social equality.
    -Supported Jim Crow Laws

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Linda Brown denied admisstion in elementary school for being black.Cheif Justice Earl Warren overruled Plessy v. Ferguson case that "separate but equal" was constitutional uner the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.

  • Faubus Orval

    -Governor of Arkansas's called AK National Guard to black students from entering Central High School, Ak.
    -Send a message against integration.
    -Pres. Eisenhower sent U.S troops to Little Rock, put National Guard under federal command.

  • James Meredith

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VvNkTXVCMFirst black student to attend University of Mississippi.
    Pres. Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops to break up protesting riots.

  • Faubus loses to Clinton

    Loses govenor postion to Bill Clinton

  • Los Angeles Riots

    http://youtu.be/SW1ZDIXiuS4Jury acquits 4 white police men that were caught on camera beating Rodney King. Footage of beating

  • Grutter v. Bollinger

    Michigan Law Schools policy, ruling that race can be taken into consideration in order to benefit from a diverse student body.

  • Parentsv Seattle and Meredith v. Jefferson

    Affirmative action setback when court rules 5 to 4 that considering race in assigning students to schools in order to maintain diversity, is unconstitutional.