Civil Rights Timeline by Bailey Dimmick https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii Bailey Dimmick EDUC 2050 en-us 2017-07-13 15:14:50 UTC 2025-11-30 10:30:27 UTC hello@padlet.com JAN. 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653395  ]]> 2017-07-13 15:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653395 DEC. 6, 1865 The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. However, Southern states managed to revive slavery era codes creating unattainable prerequisites for blacks to live, work or participate in society. The following year, the First Civil Rights Act invalidated these "Black Codes," conferring the "rights of citizenship" on all black people. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653621 2017-07-13 15:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653621 JULY 9, 1868 The 14th Amendment granted due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653673 2017-07-13 15:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653673 FEB. 3, 1870 The 15th Amendment granted blacks the right to vote, including former slaves. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653759 2017-07-13 15:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653759 MAY 18, 1896 The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. Plessy v. Ferguson gave a broad interpretation of "equal but separate" accommodations with reference to "white and colored people" legitimizing "Jim Crow" practices throughout the South. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653834 2017-07-13 15:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653834 DEC. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott that lasted over a year until the buses desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956 bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653967 2017-07-13 15:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178653967 MARCH 6, 1960 President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, prohibiting discrimination in federal government hiring on the basis of race, religion or national origin and establishing The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity , the EEOC. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654044 2017-07-13 15:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654044 OCT. 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots surrounding the incident. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654100 2017-07-13 15:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654100 JULY 2, 1964 President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin and transform American society. The "Jim Crow" laws in the South were abolished, and it became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing or hiring. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654156 2017-07-13 15:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654156 FEB. 21, 1965 - MALCOLM X Assassinated-Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb., on May 19, 1925, this world-renowned black nationalist leader was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on the first day of National Brotherhood Week bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654285 2017-07-13 15:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654285 APRIL 4, 1968 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., at age 39, was shot as he was standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654358 2017-07-13 15:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654358 MARCH 22, 1988 Overriding President Ronald Reagan's veto, Congress passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expanded the reach of nondiscrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds. bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654446 2017-07-13 15:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178654446 Civil Rights Today~ How Far We've Come bdimmick97 https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178655018 http://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/2806]]> 2017-07-13 15:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bdimmick97/xs96l7ey4fii/wish/178655018