CIvil RIghts Movement Timeline

13th amendment

On January 31, 1865 a congress for the 13th amendment passed and it was ratified on December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment was significant because it abolished slavery in the united states. This meant that neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Any where in the united states jurisdiction they had to give people freedom.

1865

14th amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment is a United States Constitution amendment that was ratified in 1868. It allowed African Americans and enslaved individuals who had been freed following the American Civil War citizenship and equal civil and legal rights. This was significant because it provided citizenship rights and equal protection for all. The California v. Trombetta was one of the supreme court decisions which meant that the Fourteenth Amendment does not require law enforcement agencies to preserve breath samples of suspected drunk drivers so that results of breath analysis tests may be used at trial.

1868

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

The Plessy Supreme Court affirmed a Louisiana state statute that provided equal but separate accommodations for white and colored people. This resulted in segregation in the South under separate but equal laws known as Jim Crow laws. This was a significant act because it upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.

1896

NAACP

The national association for the advancement of colored people founded in 1909 conference marked the beginning of the effort to fight for racial justice and equality in the united states. Thus act was significant because it played a major role in the civil rights movement. The NAACP helped bring out significant social and political change in the united states, including the landmark supreme court decision in Brown V. Board of education, which declared segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.

1909

Congress of racial equality (CORE)

The congress of racial equality was founded during 1942 during world war II. This organization was created to fight against racial discrimination and segregation in the united states. It also played an important role in the civil rights act. The strategies they used to achieve their goal was nonviolent protests, sit ins, and freedom rides. This was an important organization because it was the first non violent protest and civil disobedience to fight against racial discrimination and segregation.

1942

Japan internment & Korematsu Vs. U.S

The japan internment Vs. the united states supreme court case took place on December 18, 1944. A specific event during this time was the united states government ordered that the japanese americans were put into prison because they were seen as potential security threats. There was a supreme court case decision that upheld the constitutionality of the internment of the japanese american during WWII. The court ruled that the need to protect national security outweighed the individual rights of japanese americans and that the internment policy was a valid exercise of the governments war powers.

1944

End to segregated military

On July 26, 1948 president harry Truman made an order to end segregation in the armed services. As a result of this act both the men and the women had to serve together as equal in the same units. It wasn't until the 1950s and 1960s that significant progress was made in addressing the issue of discrimination and racial tension. This was a significant act because the end of segregation in the military paved the way for broader civil rights reforms in the U.S. By demonstrating that it was possible to break down the barriers in discrimination and prejudice.

1948

Brown V. Board of Education

This act took place in may 17, 1954. The Supreme Court decides on Brown v. Board of Education, which combines five cases into one, therefore ending racial segregation in public schools. However, many schools remained separated. This was a significant act because it helped inspire the civil rights activist across the country. Also, it demonstrated that the courts could be a powerful took for advancing the cause of civil rights, and it helped groundwork for the broader civil rights.

1954

Civil rights act

1957

On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law. During the Reconstruction period, this Act was the first legislative civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It established the protection of voting rights established by the United States Constitution's Fifteenth Amendment. The bill's goal was to raise the number of registered black voters in the South since only twenty percent were registered, with lower proportions in Deep South areas.

Sit in movement

1960

The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement was a wave of sit-ins in North Carolina that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960. The sit-in campaign used nonviolent direct action tactics and was a key event during the Civil Rights campaign.The sit-in movement was important because it gave African Americans a new sense of pride and authority. For example, blacks learned they could transform their neighborhoods through local coordinated action after rising up on their own and had significant success demonstrating against segregation in the society in which they lived.