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20 Cards in this Set
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1865 |
- 13th Amendment bans slavery |
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1868 |
- 14th Amendment - grants rights of full citizenship to all MEN. - Called the Due Process Amendment |
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1870 |
- 15th Amendment all male citizens receive the right to vote. - Male Suffrage |
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1860
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- Southern States begin passing "Jim Crow laws" - Creation of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes for African Americans - Grandfather Clause (If your grandfather could vote, so can you) |
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1896 |
- Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson creates doctrine of separate but equal |
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1923
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- Rosewood, Florida Massacre - White woman lied about being sexually assaulted by black man, actually white man - Whites Destroyed town of Rosewood |
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1948 |
- President Truman issues Executive Order 9981, equal treatment of all men in the military. - No more segregation in military
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1954
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- Supreme Court strikes down former ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - brutal killing of Emmett Till in Mississippi - Overrules Plessy Vs. Ferguson - Integration |
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1955
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- Rosa Parks bus incident leads to bus boycott that lasts over one year. - Martin Luther King, Jr. is appointed leader of NAACP. |
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1957 |
- Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is forced by federal government to integrate.("Little Rock Nine") |
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1960 |
- Lunch counter incident in Greensboro, NC. |
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1961 |
- "freedom riders" challenge segregation of public transportation systems. |
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1962 |
- James Baldwin 1st black student admitted to University of Mississippi - MLK, while in jail, writes his Letter from Birmingham Jail. - protest in Birmingham causes "Bull" Conner to use deadly force. |
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1963 |
- Medgar Evers murdered outside his home by Byron De La Beckwith. - bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church kills four young girls. - March on Washington, D.C., MLK's famous speech, " I Have A Dream" -24th Amendment passed. - Put end to Poll Taxes - " Freedom Summer" voter registration, massive protest at the Democratic Party National Convention. - Children's March, Birmingham, Alabama |
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1964 |
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Johnson. - banned discrimination in the workplace and gender discrimination. - murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi leads to a federal investigation. - murder of Malcolm X, Black Muslim leader - massive civil rights march from Selma, Ala to Montgomery, Ala...Pettus Bridge..."Bloody Sunday" |
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1965 |
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed by Congress. - Dealt with those states who had a history of voting discrimination - They had to ask federal government for permission to change.
- Watts Riots break out in Los Angeles, California - President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, begins policy of Affirmative Action. - Made up the for the wrongs that the state had done to the African-Americans - Had to give priority to black businesses
- Allen Bakke lived in California, and applied to medical school in UCD. Only 100 students every year. 16 years reserved for blacks. Very smart, high GPA. Found out that other blacks were admitted with lower GPA then him. Supreme Court decided that UCD was wrong, and should have let Allen in. Supreme Court decided that race can be a factor in admission, but can't be the only factor. Bakke won, was admitted, became a doctor, and is retired. Challenged Affirmative Action.
- Black Panthers formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. |
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1967 |
- Supreme Court ruling in Loving vs. Virginia, declares that interracial marriages are legal. - MLK murdered in Memphis, Tenn., was there to lead protest of sanitation workers. |
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1968 |
- President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, bans discrimination in housing. |
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1971 |
- Supreme Court, in Swann vs. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education, supported busing as a legal manner to integrate schools...court-ordered busing in many cities across the U.S. |
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1991 |
- Civil Rights Act extended existing civil rights laws. - Rodney King incident in Los Angeles, California, and subsequent rioting. - Supreme Court upholds policy of University of Michigan to include race as a factor in determining admission to their law school. |
