events for african american equality

  • misourri compramise

    misourri compramise
    a compramise between kansas and nabraka. kansas wanted to be a free state and nabraska did not.
  • dread scott case

    dread scott case
    a law passed that he could become a free man because his owner took him to a free state.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment
    law that was passed to help slaves become citizens if they were in free states
  • freedmans brueau

    freedmans brueau
    act to help slaves and poor whites after the civil war
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    a law that stated alll people could be citizens as long as they were born in the united states
  • 15 amendment

    15 amendment
    law passed to end slavery
  • establishment of NAACP

    establishment of NAACP
    organization used to help blacks with the civil rights mocement
  • fair housing act

    fair housing act
    can not sell or rent a dwelling to anyone