Civil Rights Timline

By Lexi1
  • The Dred Scott Case

    He tried to get rights but couldn't
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Slaves became free.
  • 13th Amendment

    A law to protect the newly freed people.
  • 14th Amendment

    A law that made everyone a citizen.
  • 15th Amendment

    Everyone is equal now.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Limit the freedom and opportunity of people of color.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Allowed 'separate but equal,' also known as segregation, to become law in the United States.
  • Creation of the NAACP

    To patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
  • 19th Amendment

    The women's suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements.
  • Jackie Robinson Breaks The Color Barrier

    They were allowed to play any sports they wanted now (KINDA)
  • Brown vs The Topeka Board of Education

    The justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
  • Little Rock Nine

    The little rock nine have on the civil rights is that the little rock nine was nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,
  • The March on Washington

    A march for jobs and freedom
  • "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of a big group and gives his speech.
  • Freedom Summer

    People were beaten even murdered because they wanted to be equal
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
  • Voting Rights of 1965

    Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
  • Selma, Alabama Marches

    Marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.
  • Creation of the Black Panther Party

    To patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
  • NOW

    To take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Title XI

    Bans sex discrimination in any federally funded education program, was signed into law.
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    The United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.
  • Roe vs Wade

    Women are allowed to decided to terminate the baby or not.