U4 timeline - Timeline

*14th amendment rattified *states that everyone is treated equal under the constitution

*15th amendment ratified *gives african american men the right to vote

*The first Women’s Suffrage Amendment was introduced in Congress, but was defeated *declined to expand enfranchisement into the sphere of gender

*Plessy v. Ferguson *upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

*NAACP is founded *ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination

*19th amendment ratified *granted women the right to vote

*Shelly v. Kramer *case that held that courts could not enforce racial covenants on real estate

*Brown v. Board of Education *unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

*Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat * bus driver orders her to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled

*Civil Rights Act of 1964 * ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

*NOW formed *an American feminist organization * consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C

*Green v. County School Board of New Kent County *case dealing with the freedom of choice plans created to avoid compliance with the Court's mandate in Brown II

*Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education * upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States

*Proposition 209 – California *amended the California Constitution to prohibit public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity

*March on Washington * march by 250,000 blacks and whites, protesting segregation and job discrimination against blacks in the nation

*Albany movement *a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

*civil rights act of 1866 *law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the la

*"Rodney king riots" *April 29 – May 4, 1992 *video of white LAPD beating African american Rodney King, which caused riots

*Montgomery Bus Boycott *political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama *Dec 5, 1955 – Dec 20, 1956

*New Orleans school integration *The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was a 1960 crisis over desegregation in schools located in New Orleans. Desegregation was a policy that introduced black students into all-white schools