Dates Flashcards
(28 cards)
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1870
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Fifteenth Amendment
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1868
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Fourteenth Amendment
2
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1890s
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Southern States introduce Jim Crow laws
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1896
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Plessy v Ferguson
4
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1944
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Smith v Allwright
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1945
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African American improvement after WWII
6
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1946
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Morgan v Virginia
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1947
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- Journey of Reconciliation
- To Secure These Rights
- NAACP picketed department stores in New Orleans
- End of the CNO voter registration campaign in Arkansas
8
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1948
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- Executive order 9800 outlawed racial discrimination in the civil service
- Executive order 9981 ended segregation in the army
9
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1949
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Truman’s inauguration ceremony is desegregated
10
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1950
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- Sweatt v Painter
- Canteen at Washington Airport is desegregated
11
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1951
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- NAACP school boycotts
- Committee on Government Contract Compliance established
12
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1953
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- UDL bus boycott in Louisiana
- Earl Warren appointed to the Supreme Court
13
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1954
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Brown v Board of Education
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1955
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- Brown II
- Lynching of Emmett Till
- Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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1956
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- Browder v Gayle
- End of Montgomery Bus Boycott
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1957
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- SCLC created
- Civil Rights Act
- Little Rock Campaign
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1958
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Cooper v Aaron
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1960
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- Greensboro sit-ins
- SNCC founded
- MAPA founded
- Boynton v Virginia
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1961
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- Freedom Rides
- NIYC founded
- Albany campaign begins
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1962
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- NFWA founded
- MAPA president, Edward Roybal, elected to the House of Representatives
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1963
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- Birmingham Campaign
- March on Washington
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1964
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- Sioux occupation of Alcatraz
- Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam & forms the OAAU
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Civil Rights Act
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1965
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- Malcolm X assassinated
- Selma campaign
- President Johnson increases American involvement in Vietnam
- Publication of Moynihan Report
- Elementary & Secondary Education Act
- SDS organise anti-war marches in Washington D.C.
- Voting Rights Act
- Launch of ¡La Huelga!
- Higher Education Act
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1966
- Freedom Cities Movement begins
- César Chávez's Peregrinación (pilgrimage)
- March Against Fear
- Chicago Campaign
- NFWA merged with the Filipino Union to create the UFW
- Black Panthers founded
- The Diggers created an anarchist commune in San Francisco
- SNCC expelled white members
25
1967
Indian Resources Development Act
26
1968
- Memphis Sanitation Worker's strike
- Chicano blowouts
- Martin Luther King assassinated
- Civil Rights Act
- Poor People's Campaign
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Daniel
- CORE expelled white members
- Table Grape Boycott launched
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1969
Weeks v Southern Bell
