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Civil Rights Act of 1968 (December 21, 1968)

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Civil Rights Act of 1968 (December 21, 1968)

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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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The March on Washington was a political rally for jobs and freedom. The event shed light on the political and social changes African Americans continued to face. MLK's famous "I have a Dream Speech" ended the rally.

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The Freedom Rights were a series of organized interstate bus rides meant to directly confront discriminatory Jim Crow laws found in Southern States.

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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks became a national symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle for racial equality.

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The Wisconsin school attendance laws were unconstitutional when applied to the amish because it violated the first amendment, freedom of religion.

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The 15th Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote.

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Desegregation of the Armed Forces (July 26, 1948)

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Desegregation of the Armed Forces (July 26, 1948)

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President Truman signed this executive order to combine the segregated military.

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James Earl Ray was a racist man and assassinated MLK in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

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The 24th amendment ended mandatory poll taxes. This contributed to the civil rights movement because these poll taxes were preventing African Americans from voting.

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The protests in Birmingham, Alabama was organized by the Southern Christina Leadership Conference. This event was protesting racial segregation.

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At a college in North Carolina, four black freshman students sat at a segregated lunch counter and were refused service.

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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball.

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The fourteenth amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States including former slaves.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (July 2, 1965)

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (July 2, 1965)

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 (August 6, 1965)

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 (August 6, 1965)

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising the right to vote. After this act, racial discrimination was prevented in voting.

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The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case challenged the law that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a women's life was at stake. This case has become the case that legalized abortion nationwide.

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MLK Jailed and Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963) 

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MLK Jailed and Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963) 

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Martin Luther King was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for a traffic violation. He wrote "A letter From Birmingham Jail" which expressed his feelings toward the unjust events that occurred that day from white clergy men.

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Nine black students enrolled in an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas were prohibited from entering the school. This incident tested the Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

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While visiting his family in Mississippi, Emmett Till is murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. The Emmett Till murder trial emphasized the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South.

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The thirteenth amendment officially abolished slavery in America.