Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
14th amendment passed
1868: This constitutional amendment define citizenship and forbids any state from not giving citizens their rights and privileges
Plessy V Ferguson Decision
1896: the Supreme Court gives legal approval for Jim Crow laws as well as roles that separate but equal facilities for different races is legal.
Booker T Washington writes Up From Slavery
1901: he argues that a gradual process is based for the liberation of blacks and proceeds to focus on job training and suggests that self respect and self help would bring opportunities for black people
Niagara movements
1905: WEB DuBois demands immediate racial equality and is against all laws that treat black people differently this leads to the creation of the NAACP in 1909
The creation of the NAACP
1909
The grandfather clause outlawed by the Supreme Court
1915: the NAACP successfully challenged the state laws that restrict black voting registration
Race riots and lynchings claim hundreds of lives
1919: over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919
38 killed in Chicago
70 black ppl
Executive order 88024 forbids race discrimination in hiring
June 1941: the FDR is set up fair employment practices commission to make sure nondiscrimination policy is in federal hiring are done
Japanese Americans sent to concentration camps
1942: the FDR allows 110,000 to be rounded up in the western states (expect Hawaii) because of the concerns over potential disloyalty
Korematsu V US
1944 the supreme court declares that concentration camps are a wartime necessity 
Jackie Robinson join is Brooklyn Dodgers
1947 Pasadena resident and UCLA alumni Robinson are the 1st black to play major league baseball
Armed Forces integrated
1948: President Truman issues an executive order requiring integrated units in the Armed Forces
Brown V board of education of Topeka decision
1954: the Supreme Court reverses Plessy by stating that separate schools are on equal schools are ordered to desegregate immediately
Southern manifesto urges resistance to desegregation efforts
1956: Southern members of Congress sign a document to attack the Supremes courts decision. Over 100 signed and were protesting
Little Rock Central high school desegregated
Fall 1957: little rock school board voted to integrate schools
the National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school
1000 federal paratroopers are needed to squad black students to preserve peace.
ArKansas Gov. Faubus response by closing schools for 1958 to 1959 school year.
Montgomery bus boycott
1955 to 1957: Rosa Parks ignites 381 day bus boycott organised by MLK
Lunch counter protests
1961:10 men sat at a whites only counter in Rockhill South Carolina and got arrested
The Friendship nine were sentenced to 30 days labour on a chain gang.
Freedom riders oppose segregation
1961: Diverse crowd take buses to the south to protest bus station segregation. Upon arrival faced violent rioting
James Meredith in roles at University of Mississippi
1962: President Kennedy sent 5000 federal troops to allow Meredith to register for classes.
The riots which occur result in two deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Desegregation Drive in Birmingham
April 1963: king and SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference) oppose local laws that supports segregation .
Riots, fire bombings, and police are used against protesters
Letter from Birmingham jail
16 April 1963: in response to white ministers who urgent to stop causing disturbances, King issues statement of nonviolent resistance to the wrongs of American society
GOV. Wallace tops desegregation of University of Alabama
June 1963: After Gov. Wallace promised segregation today, tomorrow, and forever, Wallace is forced by President Kennedy to allow blacks to enroll
Medgar Evers murdered
11 June 1963: head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside as home
same night the president Kennedy addresses the nation “are we to say the world… That this is a land of free except for Negroes”
March on Washington
28 August 1963: more than 200,000 diverse crowd of people gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches and protest racial injustice