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This was a challenge to a Texas statute that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman's life was at stake.

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The court ruled that the Wisconsin compulsory school attendance law was not applicable to the Amish under the free-exercise clause.

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April 11, 1968
This act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin.

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April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was the foremost leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement and he was shot in Memphis which sparked an enormous wave of rioting.

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August 6, 1965
This was the first national law to guarantee fully the voting rights of all Americans.

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July 2, 1965
This was made to eliminate discrimination in all aspects of employment.

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July 2, 1964
This acts purpose was to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity,

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January 23, 1964
This prohibited federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen can participate in a federal election.

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August 28, 1963
This march was the largest demonstration of human rights in U.S. history and the purpose of it was for the improvement of economic conditions of black Americans.

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April 16, 1963
This was a letter written by MLK defending the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.

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This was a direct action campaign in Alabama to strike against segregation in Birmingham.

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These were african americans who went on segregated buses and sat down to protest their rights on buses.

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These were four black students that went to a segregated store, and were refused service. So they sat together at a table until the store closed. The next day, they brought about 25 more of their friends who were yet again refused service, so they all sat until the store closed again. They continued to do this day after day and have become icons for the civil rights movement.

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December 1, 1955
She was an african american woman who got arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white woman.

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August 28, 1955
He was a 14 year old african american boy who was accused of harassing a local white woman.

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This was a front cover of an article when Truman ordered that the forces be desegregated.

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He was the first african american to play baseball in major league baseball outside of a segregated black league.

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This gave african american men the right to vote and guaranteed that no man shall have their voting rights taken away based on race.

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This granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to all African Americans who had been emancipated after slavery.

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This abolished slavery in all American states. It banned states from having slaves and forced them to release them.