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Passing of the 13th Amendment
The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States. -
Passing of the 14th 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. -
Passing of the 15th Amendment
granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
CORE began
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Mendez v. Westminster
Mendez, et al v. Westminster [sic] School District of Orange County, was a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California -
Desegregation of the Armed Forces
President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Sweatt v. Painte was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Hernandez v. Texas
Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period -
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
public education system in Texas for Mexican Americans offered segregated campuses with often minimal facilities and a curriculum frequently limited to vocational training. -
sclc began
is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Central High crisis
a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock. but they were not allowed to enter based on Governer's order. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Chicano Mural Movement
Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. -
SNCC began
led by fiery leaders such as Stokely Carmichael, SNCC focused on black power, and then protesting against the Vietnam War. -
affirmative action us
n its contemporary sense in Executive Order 10925 to ensure that government contractors "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race -
Gideon v. Wainwright
the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that states are required under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide counsel (Attorneys) in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys. -
"I Have a Dream," Address Delivered at the March on Washington
a drive to get more equal treatment for all Americans, not just white Americans. This speech was important in several ways: It brought even greater attention to the Civil Rights Movement, which had been going on for many years. -
Passing of the 24th Amendment
the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Malcolm X Assassination
he was assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam, in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Miranda v. Arizona
This case has a significant impact on law enforcement in the United States, by making what became known as the Miranda rights part of routine police procedure to ensure that suspects were informed of their rights. -
American Indian Movement began
began in Minneapolis, Minnesota,It began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting called by a group of Native American community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Yoder v. Wisconsin
Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. -
Roe v. Wade
is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. -
White v. Regester
challenged the constitutionality of a 1964 Supreme Court decision requiring the redrawing of state districts to make them all of roughly equal population size. -
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
a landmark case concerning public school finance, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit against commissioner of education William Kirby
