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thirteenth Amendment
1865
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outlaws slavery and unvoluntary servitude
Fourteenth Amendment
1868
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everyone born on the United States is citizen
Fifteenth Amendment
1870
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They cant deny the right to vote based on color and race.
Plessy vs Ferguson
1896
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Allowed to have seperate as long as its equal.
Integration of Armed Forces
1948
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whites and blacks were allowed to go to war together
Brown vs Board
1954
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they went to the supreme court for schools to be together. after a long time of court they forced schools to be integrated.
Emmett Till is murdered
1955
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He was 14 and murdered for whistling at a white women. he was shot beaten and mutilated.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
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She was arrested for not giving uo her sit to a white man. She wanted fair laws on buses for everyone, so there was a boy cott for no black people on buses and it lasted 381 days and they were succesful.
Central High School and the "little rock nine"
1957
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Nine African American student signed up to an all white school.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Founded
1957
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They wanted nonviolent resistance and made this group MLK was the leader.
Greensboro Sit-ins
1960
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nonviolent protest by young African American sparkled a sit in movement that soon sopread to college towns thoughout the region.
John F. Kennedy becomes president
1960
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He was a young president which had new ideas and opinions.
SNCC is founded
1960
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Student group that spread nonviolence througout colleges.
Freedom Rights
1961
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Tactic that aimed at desagragating public transportation through out the South.
Integration of the University of MIssissippi James Meredith
1962
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he was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi he had to go around with 127 marshalls.
16th street Baptist church in Birmingham bombed
1963
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North St. Baptist Church was bombed on Sunday September 15,1963 as a racial act of terrorism. It killed three young African American girls.
JFK assassinated and Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
1963
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JFK was assassinate in November 22,1963 on that same day JFK's vice president became the 36th's president.
March on Washington DC "I have a Dream Speech"
1963
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his speech was very famous is still played by many people in the world and it talks about people coming together no matter what their skin color is and their culture and for racism to stop.
MLK arrested and jailed wrote "Letter from Birmingham jail"
1963
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a letter he wrote while he was in jail where he talked about why he was doing the things that he was doing and what he was doing in Birmingham.
Civil Rights Act Passed 1964
1964
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Civil Rights act stopped discrimination on the base of race,color ,region, sexual orientation and national origin.
Three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi
1964
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Micheal Schwermer , Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were killed by the KKK trying to register black voters into vote.
Twenty Fourth Amendment 'Poll Tax Abolished'
1964
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24th Amendment Poll Tax abolished it was illegal to make people pay for Poll Taxes.
Malcolm X shot to death
1965
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Leader of a militant black nationalist movement was shot to death at a rally in a Ballroom in Washington Heights. A region Thomas Hagan Was charged for the Killing.
Selma to Montgomery March
1965
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Selma To Montgomery March for voting rights of blacks. On March 7,1965. 600 Civil Rights Marchers were attacked with tearing gas and billy clubs.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
1965
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Voting Rights acted gave the right for African Americans the rights to register and vote.
Black Panthers are founded
1966
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Were formed in California in 1966. Black Panthers believed that nonviolence campaign had failed and figured they could take matters in their own hands.
Stokley Carmicheal coins the phrase "Black Power'
1967
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Meant self defense, self determination and facial pride for black people.
Civil Rights of 1968 Passed
1968
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The Civil Rights act provided equal opportunities regardless race, creed, nationality although this law was enforced it did not mean land lords must accept all terms.
Martin Luther King Assassinated
1968
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on April 4,1968 he was hit by a snipers bullet and had been standing on a balcony.