Civil Rights

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• Reconstruction
• Freedom Rides
• March on Washington
• Emmitt Till

Abolition of slavery w/o compensation for slave-owners

• 13th Amendment (1865)
• 14th Amendment
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• W.E.B. DuBois

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• 14th Amendment
• Freedom Rides
• 13th Amendment (1865)
• 24th Amendment

U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed

• 15th Amendment (1870)
• 13th Amendment (1865)
• March on Washington
• Jim Crow

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1964) eliminated the poll tax as a prerequisite to vote in national elections.

• 24th Amendment
• NAACP
• Rosa Parks
• Emmitt Till

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. Upheld "Separate but Equal"

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Emmitt Till
• White Flight
• Freedom Rides

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.

• NAACP
• Jim Crow
• 24th Amendment
• March on Washington

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery."

• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Reconstruction
• March on Washington

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

• W.E.B. DuBois
• White Flight
• March on Washington
• Freedom Rides