Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Civil Rights (1868, 14th amendment passed, prevents the state from not…
Civil Rights
1868, 14th amendment passed, prevents the state from not allowing citizens their rights of citizenship
1896, Plessy V. Ferguson decision Supreme court approves jim crow laws and states that separate yet equal facilities will be given to different races
1901, Booker T. Washington wrote Up from Slavery, argued for gradual progress for African Americans and that self-help would get them jobs
1905, Niagara Movements W.E.B DuBois demands racial equality and opposes all racial laws, this leads to the creation of the NAACP in 1909.
1915, Grandfather clause outlawed by Supreme Court, NAACP successfully took laws restricting African American voter registration to court.
1919, Race riots and lynchings claim hundreds of lives More than 25 race riots occur on the summer of1919, which leave 38 dead in Chicago, and 70 blacks including 10 veterans lynched in the south
June 1941, Executive order 8802 forbids race discrimination in hiring, Fair employment practices were set up to ensure that African Americans would not be denied jobs because of color
1942, Japanese-Americans sent to concentration camps FDR was concerned about the loyalty of Japanese-Americans, so he had 110,000 sent to concentration camps
1944, Korematsu V. U.S, Supreme court rules that concentration camps were a wartime necessity, The supreme court deemed that during war the Japanese Americans lost their rights as citizens and their right as people living in a free country,and that is was constitutional and perfectly alright to do.
- 1 more item...