Black History Month By Dominic Nebel & Justin Griser

Emancipation Proclamation

• Made: January 1, 1863

• What it did: free slaves in states fighting the Union

13th Amendment

• Made: December 6, 1865

• What it did: abolition of slavery

14th Amendment

• Made: July 9, 1868• What it did: grant civil

rights to blacks

15th Amendment

• Made: February 3, 1870

• What it did: black suffrage

N.A.A.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People) • Made: February 12,

1909• What they did: help

stop black oppression

Brown vs. Board of Education Court Decision

• Happened: May 17, 1954

• What it did: stopped segregation in schools

Rosa Parks’ Bus Incident

• Happened: December 1, 1955

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man

• What happened after: stopped segregation on city buses

Little Rock 9

• Happened: September of 1957

• People involved: Ruby Bridges, Elizabeth Eckford and seven other black students

• What they did: help break the color barrier in white schools

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Made: July 2, 1964• What it did: grant civil

rights to blacks: vote,go to desegregated schools, desegregated public transportation and do any thing a white person can do

March On Washington

• Happened: August 28, 1963

• What they did: help pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Martin Luther King Jr.

• Born: January 15, 1929

• What he did: bring the blacks and the whites together and non-violence protests

• Civil Rights leader

• Died: April 4, 1968

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