Humanities Timeline Summary

This time line is about the civil rights movement. Around 1865 is when it all started. The civil war had just ended and the reconstruction period had just started. Blacks and whites were trying to integrate with each other, but the white refused and made laws that separated the two races which was called the " The Jim Crow laws ". At this time period everything was a mess, Whites felt that were me superior then all the other races. This is when the African Americans became furious and started fighting back. After years and years of fighting the government had finally passed 3 new amendments to the constitution that gave all races the same rights which were amendment 13,14,15. Even thought the government passed these laws down, whites were mad and still found ways to put blacks people down and made themselves feel better. That was when he court case in the supreme court " Plessy vs Ferguson " in 1896 happened, this court case was to enforce " Separate was not equal " But it was overturned to Separate is equal. After almost 50 years from the court case of fighting, was another court case " Brown versus Board of Education", this case was to finish the job of what Plessy vs Ferguson case couldn't but this time Brown Versus Board was not overturned and the outcome came out as " Separate was not inherently equal ". After the court case they integrated two schools , central high , and Little rock high . That was when nine teenage African American students went to little rock high. But the governor sent national guards to block the entrance so the African American students not to enter the school which broke the 14 amendment. The blacks fought back in 1963 with " The Children's March", this event was when all the African American students from all over the United States went to jail to boycott and thats when the president knew he had to do something about it. The President sent troops to bring the little rock nine to school everyday and keep them safe. That was when "The Jim Crow law " was vanished because of the civil rights act which took away all the discrimination of race employment and racial voting rights.