U.S. History timeline

By joannalynn

  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau formed during Reconstruction to assist freed slaves in the South

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment gives African Americans equal protection.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment gives African Americans the right to vote.

  • Niagra Movement

    Niagara Movement founded to fight for school integration, voting rights, and assist African American political candidates, forerunner of the NAACP

  • NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed to fight for civil rights through legal action and education

  • Congress of Racial Equality

    Founded to fight for rights without violence

  • Rosa Parks

    Rose Parks leads the Montgomery bus boycott.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Outlaws discrimination in public

  • Malcom X

    Malcom X assanated

  • MLK

    Martin Luther Kind Jr. Assanated

  • Voting Acts

    Voting Acts of 1965 renewed