Historical Context for the Civil Rights Movement by Matviei Kozaiev

1607: American colonies are settled by the British

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1776: American Revolution

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1787: U.S. Constitution ratified

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1861–1865: American Civil War

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1909: NAACP founded by W.E.B. DuBois

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1914–1918: World War I

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1941–1945: World War II

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Truman de-segregates the military

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Amendments 13, 14, & 15

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Fugitive Slave Act

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Voting Rights Act

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KKK founded

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Harlem Renaissance

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First slaves imported to America

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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1950s–1960s: Civil Rights Movement

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1954: Brown vs. Board of Education

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Dred Scott v. Sanford

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3/5 Compromise

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GI Bill passed

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

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Little Rock 9

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White Flight

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech/March on Washington

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Civil Rights Act

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Martin Luther King once said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Using information from today's lesson, what did Martin Luther King mean?

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His quote means that although progress toward fairness and equality can take a long time, it eventually happens. In today's lesson, we saw how it took centuries for African Americans to gain basic civil rights - from slavery, Civil War, to the founding of the NAACP in 1909, to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Even though change didn't happen overnight, events like the Brown v. Board of Education decision and peaceful protests led by Dr. King helped move the country closer to justice. His quote reminds us that while the fight for equality may be slow, it is always moving in the right direction.