Events
*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
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