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Thirteenth Amendment
abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "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 -
Fourteenth Amendment
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Integration of the Armed Forces
Known as Executive Order 9981, It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown vs. Board
Brown V. Board Of Education (1954) Nolo's Free Dictionary of Law Terms and Legal Definitions. The U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public education by finding that separate public schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
Emmet Till (Murdered)
Brutalily murdered for whistling at a girl and created the spark of protest for the civil rights movement. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founded
an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded
was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. -
Crisis at Central High School and the “ Little Rock Nine”
a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
Greensboro sit-in
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 which led to the Woolworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
John F. Kennedy becomes President
35th president, and was one of the big keys during the civil rights movement joining along side with MLKjr. -
Freedom Rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions. -
Integration of The University of Mississippi “James Meredith”
an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
MLK arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
an open letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. -
March on Washington DC “I Have a Dream Speech”
I have a dream definition. A phrase from the most celebrated speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered at a large rally in Washington, D.C., in 1963 to supporters of the civil rights movement. -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
it was the target of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls in the midst of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. -
Twenty Fourth Amendment “Poll Tax abolished”
an amendment to the U.S. constitution, ratified in 1964, forbidding the use of the poll tax as a requirement for voting in national or U.S. Congressional elections. -
Three civil-rights workers murdered in Mississippi
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, were shot at close range at night by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Civil Rights Act 1964 passed
A body of Federal laws that protect the rights of different groups of people. -
Malcolm X Shot to Death
killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. -
Selma to Montgomery March
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. -
Black Panthers are Founded
Black Panther Party, original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. -
Stokley Carmichael coins the phrase “Black Power”
rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own government.
Killed By James Earl Ray. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 passed
known as the Fair Housing Act, it prohibited discrimination only on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.