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13th Amendment
The 13th amendment was Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment was Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v Freguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
James Merideth
writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. -
Brown v B.O.Em
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education -
Rosa Parks arrested
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city's buses. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycottbegan, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on aMontgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. Theboycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomerybegan on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
Ghana wins
African nation of Ghana wins Independence -
nelson imprisoned
South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela is imprisoned -
I had a dream speech
MLK made a speech in Washington dc -
Civil Rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Death of Malcom X
he died on feb 21 1965 -
Death of MLK
died on April 4 1968 -
Civil rights of 1968
The Civil Rights Act signed into law in April 1968–popularly known as the Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. -
T.J Davidson and Seth Miller