Events
Jim Crow character createdSamuel Morton's Crania
American Reinforces
polygenesis, all races
created separately
with unique traitsCharles Darwin"s Orgin of
specias which inspires
social Darwinism13th Amendment Slavery banned1868
14th Amendment Born and naturalized in U.S =
Citizens equal protection under law grantedCivil War End Reconstruction Begins15th Amendment Right to vote guaranteed regardless of raceLouisiana adopted a law providing
for equal but separate accommodations
for the white and colored races on its railroadsHomer Plessy refused to sit
in a Jim Crow Car and was
brought to Judge John H.
Ferguson of the Criminal CourtPlessy v. Ferguson
Separate but EqualJim Crow Laws are legally
codified in the U.SRace Riot in Springfield Illnois,NAACP was foundedBrown v.s Board of Education:
The Supreme Court declared
segregation in schools to be
unconstitutionalMontgomery Bus Boycott:
due to the arrest of Rosa ParksMartin Luther King becomes
the president of the SCLC
(Southern Christian Leadership
Conference) Civil Right Act
is passedFirst student sit ins against
segregationin the South/ SNCC
(Student Nonviolent Coordination
Committee formedFreedom Riders movement takes offNAACP Leader Medgar Evers, was
assassinated. March on Washington
protest/ Birmingham church bombingOver 90,000 membersJames Weldon Johnson began expanding the organization's membership to the southNAACP has approximately 425,000 members
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