13 th amendment 1865 ended slavery. 14 th amendment 1868 everyone is a citizen of the us and the...
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14th Amendment
1868Everyone is a citizen of the
US and the state in which they reside.
Due Process ClauseEqual Protection Clause
Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954Separate cannot be equal.Provides legal ground for
Civil Rights Movement.Considered the start of the
movement.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Proposed by JFK.Prohibited Discrimination in
public facilities and in inter state commerce.
Created EEOCGave Justice Depart ability to
act.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Uniform standards of voter registration.
Federal govt. could register voters.
Ku Klux Klan 1865
Started after the Civil War by former Confederate Officers to prevent Blacks from voting, resist reconstruction, limit black education.
Ku Klux Klan
Predominate throughout the South.
Found nation wide.Membership has grown
and declined throughout the years.
NAACP 1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Attacked civil rights violations in court.
Attacked de jure segregation.
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality.Dedicated to bringing about
change in favor of equal rights, in a non-violent way.
SCLC 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr.Black clergymenNon-violent ProtestFocuses the movement on the
South.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955Rosa Parks arrested for
refusing to give up her seat.Blacks refused to ride city
buses for a year.Supreme Court ruled against
segregation on the buses.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Demonstrated that protests could be successful.
Launched Martin Luther King Jr. into national prominence.
James Meredith 1961
Applied to enter University of Mississippi.
DeniedFiled a lawsuit and won.Required US Marshal’s and
army troops to escort him.
James Meredith
First night at Ole Miss.160 Federal marshal’s shot 2 bystanders shot1 person killed on the first
night alone.
Ole Miss
After a riot in which two people were killed and 375 were wounded, President Kennedy sent 3,000 troops to restore order and allow Mr. Meredith to register as a student.
Emmett Till 1955
Young man from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi for the summer.
Killed because he talked to a white woman and claimed to have white girlfriends.
School Integration 1957
Central High School Little Rock, Arkansas.
Orval Fabus, Governor, order the National Guard deployed to prevent nine black students from attending.
School Integration 1957
A direct challenge to the authority of the Supreme Court and the President.
President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard placed under Federal control. Sent in regular troops to force integration.
Freedom Summer 1964
Voter Registration DriveMississippiAll major Civil Rights Groups
participated.Klan violence greeted the
volunteers.
Freedom Summer 1964
Three civil rights workers killed by the Klan.
Aided by Deputy Sheriff’s Movie Mississippi Burning
tells the story.