Civil Rights. The Beginning 1861- Southern states secede and form the Confederate States of America; Civil War begins. 1863- President Lincoln issues.

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Civil Rights

The Beginning

1861- Southern states secede and form the Confederate States of America; Civil War begins President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all slaves in areas still in rebellion.“ The Civil War ends. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is ratified The 14th Amendment, which requires equal protection under the law to all persons, is ratified The 15th Amendment, which bans racial discrimination in voting, is ratified.

1896- The Supreme Court approves the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine The National Negro Committee convenes. This leads to the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) In its first national demonstration the Ku Klux Klan marches on Washington, D.C President Truman issues an executive order outlawing segregation in the U.S. military.

1954- The Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. A boycott follows, and the bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional. The Federal Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on interstate trains and buses.

1957- Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus uses the National Guard to block nine black students from attending Little Rock High School. Following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to allow the black students to enter the school Four black college students begin sit-ins at the lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, restaurant where black patrons are not served Freedom Rides begin from Washington, D.C., into Southern states. Student volunteers are bused in to test new laws prohibiting segregation.

1963- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington, D.C Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, declaring discrimination based on race illegal.

Malcolm X is assassinated. Malcolm X, a longtime minister of the Nation of Islam, had rejected Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s policies of non-violence Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black to be named to the Supreme Court.

1962- President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to end riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend. The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty of the crime in March 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

1976- Negro History Week becomes Black History Month The Supreme Court rules, in a well-known reverse discrimination case (Bakke), that medical school admission programs that allow for positions based on race are unconstitutional The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday is established. Rosa Parks dies at the age of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at the age of 78 of a stroke. Mrs. King had moved into the forefront of the civil rights movement after the passing of her husband in 1968.