Sloane Civil Rights Movement

People

100

This person gave a speech known as the "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

MLK Jr.

200

Youngest African American to integrate schools in the south.

Ruby Bridges

300

Group of African American high schoolers, challenged segregation in public schools.

Little Rock Nine

400

African American revolutionary party that patrolled African American neighborhoods.

Black Panthers

500

Worked to abolish slavery and discrimination, helping end segregation.

NAACP

Events

100

Banned use of literacy tests and poll taxes.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

200

Over a year long protest of public busing.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

300

Protesting against public segregation.

Greensboro Sit in

400

Peaceful protests and marches throughout streets, non violent. Met with police brutality and and violence.

Birmingham Campaign

500

Protest against the lack of enforcement of supreme court decision that buses need to be desegregated.

Freedom Riders

Laws/Amendments

100

Laws in the south meant to take away freedom from newly freed slaves.

Black Codes

200

Laws that led to segregation took away civil rights.

Jim Crow Laws

300

Slavery was abolished in the US.

13th Amendment

400

Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or whether they had been slaves before the war.

15th Amendment

500

Guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the US. Gave all citizens the right to sue process and equal protection under law.

14th Amendment