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The Civil Rights Movement Timeline

The Civil Rights Movement Timeline. By Nydae Gordon. 1600’s- Africans begin being shipped to North America as slaves.

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The Civil Rights Movement Timeline

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  1. The Civil Rights Movement Timeline By Nydae Gordon

  2. 1600’s- Africans begin being shipped to North America as slaves.

  3. 1787- the writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many representatives each state will have in Congress.

  4. 1820- the Missouri Compromise allows people in each state to vote on whether slavery should be legal in that state or not.

  5. 1850- the Compromise ends the slave trade to the United States, but allows slavery to continue.

  6. 1854- the Kansas-Nebraska Act causes fighting in Kansas and Nebraska over whether those new states should allow slavery or not.

  7. 1860-1861-the Southern states break away from the United States, the northerners are angry and it caused the Civil War.

  8. 1861-1865- the North Union battles the South Confederacy in the Civil War.

  9. 1863- the Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in southern states to punish the south for trying to break away from the country.

  10. 1865-1877- during Reconstruction, the Union Army keeps southerners from treating their freed slaves badly.

  11. 1954- in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, the Supreme Court rules that separate schools for black and white students is unconstitutional.

  12. 1957- the Little Rock Nine help integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School.

  13. 1961- Black and white freedom riders travel into the south to see if they will be treated equally, and they are attacked by racists.

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