USA A level civil rights timeline
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Updated: 23 Feb 2023
USA - civil rights major timeline
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1868: the 14th amendment (SOCIAL)1871: KKK Act [POLITICAL]Hayes compromise
[SOCIAL/POLTICAL/ECONOMC]]1873: Slaughter House cases [SOCIAL]1896: Plessy vs Ferguson
(Separate but Equal)
[SOCIAL]Wilson shows the birth of a nation
film of 1919 in the Whitehouse [SOCIAL]1917: NAACP Buchanan vs Warly. [SOCIAL]1870: 15th Amendment 1870 [POLITICAL]1867: First reconstruction Act [POLITICAL]NAACP established in 1909
[SOCIAL/POLTICAL/ECONOMIC]US vs Guinn 1915 [POLTICAL]13th Amendment (the outlaw of slavery) [SOCIAL]The 'Red Record' is
published in 1895.
Written by Ida B Wells. [SOCIAL]NAACP succeeds:
The first AA army officers are
allowed to serve in the army. [SOCIAL]Booker T Washington's
Atlanta Speech [SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC]The Freedman's bureau is set up [ECONOMIC]Coloured farmers Association
peak membership [ECONOMIC]1881: Booker T Washington set up
the Tuskegee Institute. [ECONOMIC]1919: Chicago race riots [SOCIAL]St.Lewis riot over AA employment [SOCIAL]1919: Illinois riot [SOCIAL]1935: Rubin Stacy is lynched [SOCIAL]1915: The KKK is re-founded [SOCIAL]Facilities were not
'separate but equal' [SOCIAL]Garvey established the UNIA. [SOCIAL]1923: Moore vs Dempsey1938: Gaines vs Canada [SOCIAL]Hoover nominates John Parker to Supreme Court [POLITCAL]John Parker nomination is blocked by the Senate. [POLITICAL].1933: The Civilian
Conservation Crops is set upTruman's civil rights committee:
(To Secure These Rights report) [SOCIAL]Formation of CORE by
James Farmer [SOCIAL]Du Bois arrested as Soviet Agent [SOCIAL]Sweatt vs Painter 1950 [SOCIAL]Truman Executive Orders [SOCIAL]Brown vs Topeka Board of Education 1954 [SOCIAL]Murder of Emmet Till [SOCIAL]Malcolm X becomes
spokesman of Islam [SOCIAL]Malcolm X assasination. [SOCIAL]The Black Panthers are formed [SOCIAL]Philip Randolph
'March on Washington' threatExecutive order
8802 in 194124th Amendment 1964
(vs the poll tax) [POLITICAL]1965 US vs Mississippi [POLITICAL]California v BlakkeSelma Campaign March 1965 [POLITICAL]Voting Rights Act 1965 [POLITICAL]South Caronlina vs Katzenbach
1965 [POLITICAL]CORE Freedom Rides 1961 [SOCIAL]Morgan vs Virginia 1946 [SOCIAL]Boynton vs Virginia 1960 [SOCIAL]Mississippi vs Williams [POLITICAL]Mississippi 1890 state
constitution -
voting qualifications [POLTICAL]end of the world.Birmingham Campaign,
Alabama, 1963 [SOCIAL]The Civil Rights Act 1964
[SOCIAL]Economic opportunity Act
1964 [ECONOMIC]Moynihan Report,
1965, [ECONOMIC]Failure of the 1966
Chicago campaign [ECONOMIC]Albany Campaign
[ECONOMIC]Alexander vs Holmes County
1969 [SOCIAL]Swann vs
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education, 1971 [SOCIAL]Green vs Connally 1970 [SOCIAL]Rodney King riots, 1992 [SOCIAL]Affirmative action [ECONOMIC]Bakke vs University of California [ECONOMIC]Cruikshank vs USA [SOCAIL]Representation in governmentHousewives league formedSmith vs AllwrightPeriods
ReconstructionWoodrow Wilson presidencyThe Black CodesJim Crow Era (Era of Segregation)Abraham Lincoln presidencyAndrew Johnson presidencyGrant PresidencyHayes presidencyCleveland presidencyTheodore Roosevelt presidencyTaft presidencyFranklin D Roosevelt presidencyHarry Truman presidencyEisenhower presidencyJFK presidencyLyndon Johnson presidencyAmerican Civil WarHeight of lynching in the south [SOCIAL]The Great DepressionHoover presidencyRoosevelt's 'New Deal' policies and programmes are in useWorld War 2: 'The Double V'
Economic opertunitiesThe Cold WarMontgomery Bus Boycott [SOCIAL]Nixon PresidencyThe civil rights movementUnrest of the late 1960sReagan PresidencyHeight of Sharecropping [ECONOMIC]World war oneRed Summer
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