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Monday, January 11, 2010

Humanities Civil Rights Act Timeline

General Civil Right (1865 - 1965) - The whole movement started when the civil war ended in 1865. At that time, segregation started and in 1965 that was when public facilities were integrated, and when they demolished the Jim Crow Laws, racial discrimination employments, and racial voting rights, which was called the civil rights act.
Reconstruction ( 1860's - 1880's) - This was a time period when blacks and whites were trying to integrate right after the civil war, blacks were trying to enforce the 3 new amendments that had been passed by the government on the white people.
Jim Crow Law ( 1875 - 1965 ) - Jim Crow Law was a state law in the south that separated White and African American people in the states of the south and was ended after almost a century after it was started
Amendment 13 ( 1865 ) - Amendment 13 was a law that ended slavery and made it illegal to have slaves.
Amendment 14 ( 1868 ) - This amendment was to enforce amendment 13,15. This amendment assured that no state law shall take away any rights from any person.
Amendment 15 ( 1870 ) - This amendment was the right to vote, and that can not be taken away according to race , sexuality , color or
previous condition of servitude.
Plessy versus Ferguson (1896) - Plessy Versus Ferguson was a court case in the supreme court for "Separate is not equal" but in the end it was down to 7 votes to 1 vote, the outcome of the decision was " Separate but equal " is fair.
Brown Versus Board ( 1954 ) - This was the greatest success of NAACP, National Association For Advanced Colored People; Brown versus Board was a law case which continued what Plessy Versus Ferguson failed to do which was to state "separate is not equal" , but this time it was 9 - 0 votes and the outcome was "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
Children's march ( 1963) - This event took place in the south where African American children/students from all over the United States went to March and decide to all go to jail as a boycott protest for segregation.

3 comments:

  1. can you be more specific please, because some of the stuffs that you listed aren't even events.

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  2. Kevin, I think it's okay to have eras or periods of time, like the "Jim Crow South" on the timeline. However, I think you do need to be more specific.

    By the way, you have a nice looking blog!

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  3. Also, check for any mistakes in your facts and in your grammar :)

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