Timeline

By pipei
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abolishes slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Rights of citizenship, due process of law, equal protection from the law
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Right to vote cannot be denied on the color of skin
  • Tuskegee Institute created

    Tuskegee Institute created

    A school for colored teachers, provided students with academic and vocational training. Founded by Booker T. Washington.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    "Separate but equal"
  • NAACP created

    NAACP created

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Civil Rights organization to help fight for African American Rights. Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Right to vote should not be denied because of sex (women have the right to vote)
  • Executive Order 9981

    Executive Order 9981

    Truman abolished discrimination.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    Integrated public schools.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Civil Rights protest African Americans refused to ride city buses protesting segregated seating. Rosa Parks.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

    civil rights movement in a non-violent way. MLK
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    Orval prevented 9 african americans from entering school president eisanhower uses national gaurd to protect students entry in school group african amercians
  • Greensboro Nc Sit Ins

    Greensboro Nc Sit Ins

    African American students sat at a whites only table and refused to leave group African American
  • Student Non Violent Committee Formed

    Student Non Violent Committee Formed

    A committee of students who protested with non violent tactics
  • Dr. Kings Letter to Birmingham Jail

    Dr. Kings Letter to Birmingham Jail

    Defends the strategy of using non violence to protest.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    No more poll taxes group everything
  • Black Panthers

    Black Panthers

    A political org founded to challenge police brutality
  • MLK assassinated

    MLK assassinated

    James Earl ray Assinated Mlk from a hotel bathroom
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Provided for legal equality of the sexes and prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. Proposed by the National Women's political party.
  • Sonia Sotomayor Appointed To The Supreme Court

    Sonia Sotomayor Appointed To The Supreme Court

    Appointed by Regaen and was the first female to serve in the court group womans rights