Black Segregation Timeline for kids
Interesting facts about racial discrimination are provided Black Segregation Timeline detailed below. The history of
Racial Segregation in America is told in a
factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of interesting, short facts
and dates providing a simple method of relating the
history of the Segregation for kids, schools and homework projects.
Black
Segregation Timeline for kids
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 1:
1857: The
Dred Scott
Court Decision
that stated that slaves were not citizens but the
property of their owners
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 2:
1861-1865: Black soldiers were
segregated during the Civil War
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 3:
1862: The
Homestead Act was passed giving away free farming
land.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 4:
1865: The 13th Amendment ended
slavery
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 5:
1865 - 1866: The
series of laws called the
Black Codes were
passed to restrict the ex-slaves new found freedom.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 6:
1865:
The
Freedmen's Bureau
Bill was passed establishing a temporary government
agency to help and protect emancipated slaves in the
South
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 7:
1865:
The
Sharecropping
system resulted in
constant debt and poverty.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 8:
1866: The Southern
Homestead Act was passed to establish the freed slaves
as landowners in the South. It completely failed due to
segregation and discrimination and was repealed in 1879
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 9:
1866:
The
Civil Rights Act
of 1866 was passed to protect ex-slaves
from legislation such as the Black Codes
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 10:
1866:
The
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
was founded by White Supremacists who used terror
tactics and acts of violence to maintain racial
segregation in the South.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 11:
1868:
The 14th Amendment dealt with Civil
Rights and
asserted that there were equal protection rights
nullifying part of the Dred
Scott decision and prohibiting state laws that denied
citizens equal protection under the law
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 12:
1870: The
Enforcement Acts
(including the Ku Klux Klan Act) were passed.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 13:
1870:
The 15th Amendment prohibiting racial
discrimination in voting
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 14:
1874:
The White League white paramilitary group was
established in
Louisiana to prevent freedmen from voting
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 15:
1875:
The Red Shirts, a white paramilitary group was established in
Mississippi
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 16:
1875:
The
Civil Rights
Act of 1875 was a law to protect all citizens in
their civil and legal rights but it
was not enforced, and the Supreme Court declared it
unconstitutional in 1883
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 17:
1879: The
Exodusters.
A
mass migration of thousands of African Americans to
Kansas was organized by Benjamin "Pap" Singleton.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 18:
1880:
The
Jim Crow Laws of the South legalized
segregation. The number of Lynchings began to
escalate. Black Americans were deprived of the right to
vote by imposing a poll tax of $2 and a literacy test in
order to be eligible to vote
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 19:
1886:
Black farmers formed the
Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union
which strongly supported
Black Populism.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 20:
1896: The Federal
government Sanctions Racial Segregation as a result of
the
Plessy vs. Ferguson Case
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 21:
1900's: The years
surrounding WW1 saw the emergence of race riots against
black communities and the
Resurgence of the 1920's Ku Klux Klan.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 22:
1913:
The federal government imposed racial segregation in
government offices in Washington, D.C. It was eventually
reversed in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the 1930s.
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 23:
1939 - 1945:
During World War II Black Americans were initially
assigned to non-combat units
Black
Segregation Timeline Fact 24:
1948: President Harry S. Truman issued an executive
order de-segregating the armed forces.
Continued...
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Segregation Timeline for kids
Black Segregation Timeline cont.
Interesting, fast facts about racial discrimination are provided Black Segregation Timeline
of the 1900's detailed below. The history of Segregation is told in a
factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of interesting, short,
fast facts and dates providing a simple method of relating the
history of the Segregation for kids, schools and homework projects.
Black
Segregation Timeline for kids
Civil
Rights Timeline Fact 25:
1954: The
African-American Civil Rights Movement began
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 26:
1954: The
Brown vs. Board of
Education case - the Supreme Court banned the practice
of school segregation
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 27:
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat is ejected
from a racially segregated bus
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 28:
1955: Dr. Martin Luther King become the president of the
Montgomery Improvement Association and the
Montgomery Bus Boycott
begins
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 29:
1957: The
Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed to ensure that all African
Americans could exercise their right to vote. Dr. Martin
Luther King becomes president of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil Rights
Timeline Fact 30: 1957: President
Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to enforce
integration of Little Rock's Central High School - refer
to the
Little Rock Nine
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 31:
1960: The Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded and
organized 'Sit-ins' and Freedom Rides throughout the
South
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 32:
1963:
Dr.
Martin Luther King organizes a massive
peace protest in the heavily segregated city of
Birmingham, Alabama which ends in violence. MLK is
arrested and writes the
Letter from Birmingham
Jail
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 33:
1963: Dr. Martin
Luther King meets with President Kennedy who fully
endorses the civil rights movement.
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 34:
1963: Dr. King then delivers his
famous "I Have a Dream" at the end of the
March on Washington
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 35:
1964: The
Civil Rights Act of 1964
bans segregation and discrimination based on race,
nationality, or gender
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 36:
1964: The
24th Amendment was passed making it illegal to
make anyone pay a tax to have the right to vote.
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 37:
1964: The Freedom Summer campaign was organized by
SNCC activists
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 38:
1964: The
Voting Rights Act of 1965
was passed to safeguard the right to
vote of Black Americans and banned the use of literacy
tests.
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 39:
1968:
Dr. Martin Luther King is killed by James Earl Ray in
Memphis, Tennessee. See
MLK Assassination
Civil Rights Timeline Fact 40:
1968: The rise of Black revolutionaries such as the
Black Panthers together with the violence of the race
riots effectively ends the civil rights movement.
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Segregation Timeline for kids
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