1. Civil Rights in Black and
White
The 3/5ths Compromise
Dred Scot and Civil War
Jim Crow and Disenfranchisement
The Legal (1954) and Political (1955) Landmarks
The Bloody 1960s
The Nationalization of Civil Rights (1970s)
Barack Obama -- Iowa and Onward
2. Timeline 1
• The First Reconstruction
• Deconstruction: Disenfranchisement, Plessy,
Jim Crow,Terrorism, and Out-Migration.
• Dubois and the Niagra Movement
• Founding of the NAACP (1909)
4. • Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
• McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• 29/32
• 1967:America’s First African-American
Supreme Court Justice (one of only two,
ever).
7. • 1961:The Freedom Riders
• 1962:The Battle of Ole Miss
• 1963: Birmingha (1 and II), Medgar Evers,
andTHE March on Washington
• 1964:The Civil Rights Act
• 1965: Selma and TheVoting Rights Act
• 1966:The Black Panthers
• 1967: Loving v.Virginia