Social Studies Equality

Congress

Mar 1, 1864

Congress establsihed the Freedmens Bureau, to protect the rights of African Americans

Black codes

Jan 1, 1865

Are passes by Southern States. drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves.

Reconstruction acts

Mar 8, 1867

carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves.

First school

Sep 10, 1869

Howards University school becomes the country's first black law school.

15th Admendment

May 9, 1870

It gave African Americans the right to vote

Plessy v. Ferguson

Jun 4, 1896

This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.

14th Admendment

Mar 8, 1900

defining citizenship. Individuals born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens, including those born as slaves.

Jackie Robinson

Mar 3, 1947

Jackie Robinson is the first AFrican AMerican baseball player in the major leagues