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13-14th Amendments
The 13th amendment ended slavery in america, while the 14th was made up of 4 portions, the first of which turned former slaves into citizens, and guaranteed the due process of law for all. The other 3 portions are all obsolete. -
Civil War-Emancipation Priclamation
Contrary to popular belief, the civil was not originally fought over slavery, but preserving the union. For a large portion of the war, the north lost battle after battle, until the Battle at Antietam. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves legally, however many slaveholders simply ignored this. -
Plessy vs. Fergusen
Plessy vs. Fergusen was a court case discussing the problem of segregated train cars. A black man, Plessy, was arrested, and the trial went all the way to the supreme court. This lead to a controversial decree, the Separate But Equal doctrine. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
A unanimous court decision ending federal tolerance for the separate but equal doctrine, and stated that schools must integrate. The supreme court made this decision on the basis that many if not all facilities for blacks were vastly inferior to the white facilities. -
Emmet Till
A young man travelling to mississippi to visit his uncle, Emmet Till spoke to a white woman, and was threatened by a white man. This same man came to his house later that week, and asked for Emmet. Emmet was found beaten, shot, and dead floating in the river 4 days later. His mother insisted on an open casket funeral to show what the men did to her child. The trial took 5 days, and the men were found not guilty. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was the first large scale protest for black rights, and began because Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat for a white man. It lasted more than a year, with the leader, Martin Luther King JR. and many of the participants being sued. The buses lost 35,000 bus fares EVERY DAY. The idea of this protest was a nonviolent, peaceful protest, in the ideal of Civil Disobedience.