Civil Rights Timeline

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment-Malu:

• Shaped United States of America. Amendments that constructed America
• Abolished slavery, giving African Americans equal protection, allowing black men to vote

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.-Jack:

• Peaceful protest for equal rights
• April 4th, 1968 from James Earl Ray 

Reconstruction Acts of 1867-Luis:

• After Civil War, President Andrew Johnson tried bring back together the South and North of the United States of America
• President Impeached for not agreeing with Congress

Enforcement Acts of 1870-Ria:

• Prohibiting discrimination
• Maintain purity of white people by protecting African Americans

Plessy vs. Ferguson- Euna:

• Supreme Court case- "Separate but equal" racial segregation law
• Legalised racial segregation

Racial Violence Increases and the Great Migration Occurs- Kento:

• Moving to the North because of bad an not well payed jobs, weren't treated equally
• Peak migration to the North was in 1940

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People- Gabi:

• Insure that there is equality and no discrimination because of race
• Formed after a race riot- held by racist white men

World War Two Segregation- Yoshiya:

• Tuskegee experiment was put on the Tuskegee men, who are African American pilots, because the white men didn't trust them
• 6888th Central Postal Battalion- all black Women's Army Corps

Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education- Cheryl:

• Overturned Plessy vs. Segregation law
• Ended federal tolerance of racial segregation
• Mr. Civil Rights- Thurgood Marshall- NAACP
• Equal opportunity for education

Civil Rights Act of 1957-Grace:

• Passed by President Eisenhower
• Allowed blacks to vote-still had to do an unfair literacy test- a lot of controversy

Little Rock, Arkansas-Jayant:

• Black people would be a part of white schools-white refused
• President Eisenhower had to get military troops to protect the black students and doctors

Sit-ins & SNCC-Isabel:

• Black people would occupy themselves in tables or bars by doing anything they could like work, reading, etc. - nonviolent  "Jail Not Bail"
• Whites did not allow the blacks to sit at the bar tables

Freedom Riders- Stuti:

• Group of blacks and whites who would travel through the South on a bus to prove that mixed transportation is okay. Came from North- South was against it because of their laws.
• The Southerners would burn the freedom riders buses- beat them up

University of Mississippi Integration- Ramu:

• James Meredith- first African American to attend the University of Mississippi- military assistance
• Ole Miss Riots in 1962 protested against James Meredith going to an all white school

Freedom Summer- Chris:

• Movement to try to legalise blacks to vote- Literacy tests- Whites would help teach African Americans
• Started with 100 college students- 3 were kidnapped and killed for involvement in the organisation

Selma "Bloody Sunday- Somya:

• March 7, 1965- 600 people crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge to start the Selma to Montgomery march- led by Hosea Williams and John Lewis- wanted equal voting rights- civil rights
• Attacks of tear gas and clubs
• Second march on March 9, 1965 was led by Martin Luther King Jr.- half of the marchers were white-
• Federal Judge ruled in their favour

Voting Rights Act and the 24th Amendment

• January 23, 1964- abolished poll taxes so you don't have to pay to vote and to allow everyone to vote- President Johnson- August 6, 1965- signed abolishment of poll taxes
• Started with the Great Alabama Freedom March