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Details- This case found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade.
Importance- The parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion outweighed the state's interest i education their children.

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Details- This act defines housing discrimination as the refusal to sell or rent housing to any person because of race or color.
Importance- This act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale or rental of housing based on race, religion, and color.

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Details- This act was a federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities and employment.
Importance- This banned employment segregation based on race or color and is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements.

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Details- This was a political demonstration held in Washington by civil rights leaders for jobs and freedom equality for everyone.
Importance- This was intended to fight for the rights of African Americans for jobs and freedom and shed light on challenges these people faced.

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Details- These were people who challenged racial laws in the South by refusing to abide by the laws that discriminated seating in buses by race.
Importance- It lead to a Supreme Court declaring that segregation of transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional.

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Details- An African American women who refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person, even though she was legally required to do so.
Importance- She is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement" because of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat.

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Details- This amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that any US citizen vote shall not be denied by race or color.
Importance- It granted voting rights to all African American males and it spread awareness for discrimination.

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Details- This was an executive order that abolished racial discrimination in the US armed forces.
Importance- This eventually led to the end of segregation in the services as well.

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Details- Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his room at a Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Importance- MLK led the civil rights movement since the 1950's using powerful words and his death resulted in anger from all African Americans.

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Details- This amendment abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. Each voter had to pay this annually by each voter in order to cast a vote.
Importance- African Americans were discriminated and could not vote for elected officials therefore, the poll tax was just enough to stop poor African American and whites from voting.

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Details- A movement created to bring attention to integration efforts of African American in Birmingham by the SCLC.
Importance- This displayed crucial civil rights campaigns and some had some success.

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Details- This was four black freshman at a University who took seats at the segregated lunch counter in Greensboro.
Importance- It resulted in a sit-in movement that spread to other towns throughout the regions. It put an awareness towards African Americans in the 1960's.

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Details- The first African American to play major league baseball outside of a segregated league.
Importance- He became a living milestone for racial equality and changed the sport of baseball forever, while also spreading awareness for segregation in sports.

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Details- This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protections of the laws to all citizens.
Importance- It declared that all people born in the United States are US citizens and they are eligible to vote for members of government.

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Details- The creation of this program was a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
Importance- This program spread awareness for all sorts of discrimination and gave equal civil rights to all people in the workforce.

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Details- This eliminated various devices, like literacy tests that had originally been used to restrict African Americans from voting.
Importance- This law overcame legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from having the right to vote.

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Details- Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus.
Importance- This court case resulted in government regulation of abortions must meet strict judicial review.

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MLK Jailed/ Letter from Birmingham Jail- 1963

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MLK Jailed/ Letter from Birmingham Jail- 1963

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Details- MLK wrote letter from Birmingham Jail to his clergymen after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation.
Importance- This letter defended the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism for African Americans.

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Details- This was a group of nine African American high school students who were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school in Arkansas.
Importance- These people were symbols of segregation in the 1950's and their enrollment in an all white school led to awareness of segregation in school systems.

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Details- He was an African American teenager who was lynched due to supposedly flirting with a white woman.
Importance- His murder expanded the Civil Rights Movement by resulting in protests and anger from all people.

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Details- The 13 Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Importance- Unlike the Emancipation Proclamation, this amendment abolished slavery throughout the entire US, giving African Americans more rights and freedoms.