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Promotes gender equality by guaranteeing girls in school the same opportunities as boys in athletic programs

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Created to improve conditions for recently urbanized Native Americans with goals to return supreme power of their original lands to them

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Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale and rental of housing based on race, religion, national origin and gender.

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1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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MLK Jr. is shot and killed standing outside of his Memphis, Tennessee hotel.

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Created after the assassination of Malcolm X

Pro-violence civil rights group

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1965: Creation of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

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1965: Creation of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

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Part of LBJ’s “Great Society” and “War on Poverty”

Helps provide places to live for the working poor, minorities, people with disabilities, the elderly, and the homeless

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1966: National Organization of Women (NOW)

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1966: National Organization of Women (NOW)

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Established by a group of feminists who were dedicated to actively challenging sex discrimination in society

Goal: To take action to bring about equality for all women

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Part of LBJ’s “Great Society” and “War on Poverty”

National public health insurance program for people with low income

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Part of LBJ’s “Great Society” and “War on Poverty”

Gave health insurance to senior citizens

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LBJ aimed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote, specifically literacy tests which said African Americans had to prove they could read and write and the grandfather clause which says if you’re grandfather was a slave, you couldn’t vote.

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Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.

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1964: Start of the War on Poverty by LBJ

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1964: Start of the War on Poverty by LBJ

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Started by Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ) to lower the national poverty rate with a series of programs by improving living conditions for residents of low-income neighborhoods.

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1963: I Have a Dream Speech is Given in Washington DC

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1963: I Have a Dream Speech is Given in Washington DC

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Martin Luther King Jr. gives his most famous speech in Washington asking African Americans to not protest violently and that it’s their right as Americans to have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Eliminates the poll tax which requires people to pay a fee to be able to vote

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1962: Martin Luther King is Arrested in Birmingham, AL

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1962: Martin Luther King is Arrested in Birmingham, AL

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Martin Luther King is arrested for protesting for equal rights in Birmingham, Alabama. He proceeds to write the Birmingham Jail Letters asking African Americans to campaign for equal rights now.

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A set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants based on gender, religion, race or nationality.

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1961: Freedom Rides throughout the South

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1961: Freedom Rides throughout the South

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Over 1,000 white and African American volunteers take bus trips through the South. They did this to protest the segregation on public transportation. The volunteers still had to face many angry people and mobs.

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Four African American college students start a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They would not leave until they were served. Many protests like this started across the South to address the segregation of dining areas of colored people and white people.

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Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, orders the National Guard to block nine African American students from going to Little Rock High School after the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education allowing for the desegregation of public schools. US President Eisenhower orders federal troops to make sure the African American students are allowed to enter.

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Truman passes the order to allow integration of colored people into the armed forces without fear of discrimination

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1909: Creation of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 

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1909: Creation of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 

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WEB Dubois creates an organization to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination

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1881: Creation of the Tuskegee Institute

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1881: Creation of the Tuskegee Institute

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The African American vocational college is created by Booker T Washington to help African Americans make a living by learning a hands on trade (carpentry, brick making, shoe making, farming).

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Museums & Collections (U.S. National Park Service)

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The National Park Service manages one of the world’s largest museum systems, with museum and archival collections located in in over 390 parks and centers throughout the US.