Jan 1, 1863

Emancipation
Proclamation Aug 27, 1955
1961 1971
1865 Emmett Till
Freedom rides Griggs v. Duke
Black codes Kidnapped and
Power Company
developed killed Feb 14, 1957
1917 confirmed validity
1865 SCLC established of affirmative
Buchanan v. Warley
Freed Man’s Bureau Residential 1933 action
April, 1960
segregation found to Insisted on all state
Student nonviolent
Dec 6, 1865 be unconstitutional appeals being
coordinating 1970
13th Amendment – exhausted before cases Green v. Connally
1895 committee (SNCC)
abolished slavery could come before the
founded federal funds
Atlanta Compromise Supreme Court –
1867 1908 would be
– if whites regard impeded NAACP Feb 1, 1960
Military race riot in withheld from
blacks as potential First sit-in held by
reconstruction act – Springfield May 17, 1954 schools that
economic partners 4 black students
divided the south into Brown v. Board of continued
the race question 1925 at Woolworths
military districts 1943
would be diffused. American
Education – Oct 1, 1962 segregation
Serious riot
segregation in James Meredith
Negro in Detroit 1975
Dec 6, 1875 1919 education was enters university
1881 Feb 12, 1909 labor Harvard sets up WEB
Civil Rights Act – race riots unconstitutional with 5,000 federal
Tuskegee NAACP founded congress Du Bois institute for AA
equal treatment institute in Chicago founded 1942 troops- violence research
in public CORE set up and riots

1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980

1870 1890 1910 1930 1950 1970 1990

March 6, 1960
1911 1955
Kennedy prohibits
1905 National White citizens 1968
1938 discrimination in
1872 Niagara Urban council Poor people’s
1876 May 18, 1896 Gaines v. Canada federal
Bureau Movement League opened to campaign
US v. Cruishank Plessy v. Ferguson – (1938) ruled that government and
Jul 9, 1868 closes wanted a setup to maintain 1963
Enforcement acts “separate but equal” separate but equal establishes
14th found campaign to look after strict Birmingham protest
upheld segregation facilities must be committee of
Amendment unconstitutional restore voting AA in 1923 segregation Aug 28, 1963
1873 on trains really equal Equal
equal rights and northern Moore v. Dempsey 250,000 people
Slaughterhouse case- 1944 Employment
protection abolish all cities failed to uphold the join the March on
decided that the Smith v. Opportunity
under the discrimination, death sentences of Washington1968
rights of citizens Allwright 1988
law May 18, 1896 rejection of 12 blacks because 1957 Fair housing act
should stay under outlawed all Reagans veto
National Association their trials had been Little Rock – black
state rather than 1917 kinds of white 1965 overridden –
of Colored Women ‘dominated by students try to go
federal control Ida B primary in Voting Rights Act congress pass
1860 1898 mobs’ to white school,
Wells Texas banned voting civil rights
Confederacy Jul 9, 1870 Mississippi v. Williams first federal
campaign tests 1966 restoration act
formed 15th Amendment – argued that jury that intervention
about the 1960 Chicago Campaign
right to vote convicted him was (Eisenhower)
hanging Boynton v. MLK focused on
Enforcement acts unconstitutionally selected 1946
of 12 Dec 1, 1955 Virgina de facto
since blacks were excluded Truman’s
1866 black Rosa Parks outlawed segregation
from electoral register Committee
Civil rights act should have soldiers refused to give up segregation
on civil
guaranteed legal equality to her seat in the on all inter-
rights but no
blacks. But was argued it was ‘colored section’ state travel
legislation
unconstitutional because it of the bus
followed 1964 facilities
infringed states’ rights. Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination