1865- Thirteenth amendment
● Officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day

1868- fourteenth amendment
● States that all people born or naturalized in the U.S. are american citizens including african americans

1870- fiffteenth amendment
● Prohibits each government in the U.S. from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizens race, color, or previous condition of servitude

1896- Plessy vs. Ferguson
● On June 7, 1892, 30­year­old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the
"Colored" car. the U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregated, or
"separate but equal," public facilities for whites and black
African­American are legal. The ruling stands until 1954.

1948- Integration of the armed forces
● On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of
Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military.

1954- Brown vs. Board
● A class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the city of Topeka, Kansas in the United States District Court for the
District of Kansas in 1951. The plaintiffs consisted of thirteen parents of twenty children who attended the Topeka School District.
They filed the suit hoping that the school district would change its policy of racial segregation.

1955- Emmett Till is murdered
● A 14 year old black boy by the name of Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered while going to visiting his grandfather. The murderers were charged but not convicted they were not retrial even after a recorded confession after the trial.

1955- Rosa parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
● In Montgomery a lady by the name of Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. The bus driver called the police and Rosa was arrested. African americans responded by holding a bus boycott that lasted for over a year.

1957-Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded
● The sclc was founded after the montgomery bus boycott on december 5, 1955.

1957-Crisis at Central High School And The Little Rock Nine
● The little rock nine were the nine black students that were responsible for the desegregation of central high school. As the students walked up to the school they were turned away by the
National Guard who were called by the governor Faubus.

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1960-Greensboro Sit-ins-1960
● Meanwhile in Greensboro North Carolina four african­american college students held a sit­in at segregated diner. They are denied service but they were allowed to sit at the counter. They were physically assaulted by white customers This event sparked many more non­violent protests in the south.

1960-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded
● This Organization was founded at Shaw University. Using this young black people found a place in the civil rights movement.Later this
Org. becomes much bigger and instrumental in the CRM.

1960- John F. Kennedy becomes president
● John f. kennedy became the youngest president in the united states ever. Kennedy narrowly beat former president Richard Nixon.

1961-Freedom Riders
● College students began taking bus trips through the south to test laws that allowed segregation in interstate travel facilities. Freedom
Riders were attacked by angry mobs along the way and even had a bus put on fire by the white mobs.

1962-Integration of The University of Mississippi “James Meredith”
● At the University of Mississippi one brave student named James
Meredith enrolls and becomes the first black student to attend the college. Although achieving this major accomplishment violence and mobs broke out at the school, causing president kennedy to