civil rights timeline

civil rights timeline

1865

13 Amendment

1868

Lincoln and other leaders realized amending the Constitution was the only way to officially end slavery.

14 Amendment

granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”

1870

15 Amendment

granted the vote to all black men, giving freed slaves and free blacks greater political power than they had ever had in the United States.

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery

1968

MLK Assassination

His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era

1968

Civil Rights Act of 1968

prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex

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1957

little rock 9

the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School

1960

greensboro 4

four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil.

1961

freedom rides

ivil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia

1963

MLK jailed

was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama

1963

1963

Birmingham Protests

march on washington

protests in birmingham began with a boycott led by shuttlesworth meant to pressure business leaders to open employment to people of all races

a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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1964

24th amendment

the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

1964

civil rights act of 1964

prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin