| Term | Definition |
|---|
| 14th amendment | 1868 |
| 15th amendment | 1870 |
| Plessey vs Ferguson | 1896 |
| 76 blacks lynched/race riots | 1919 |
| KKK march on washington | 1925 |
| WW2 | 1939 |
| NAACP membership 50,000 to 450,000/smith vs allright | 1940 |
| Race riots in NY | 1943 |
| Civil rights commission established | 1946 |
| Segregation ends in the army/truman=2/3 black vote/dixiecrats established | 1947 |
| Sweatt vs painter | 1949 |
| 11 states & 20 cities have antidiscrimination legislation | 1952 |
| Brown vs topeka | 1954 |
| Brown 2/Emmett Till murdered/Bus boycott begins | 1955 |
| SCLC established/Southern manifesto | 1956 |
| Little rock/Civil rights act/Browder vs Gayle | 1957 |
| Sit-ins/watered down Civil Rights act/SNCC established | 1960 |
| freedom rides/albany | 1961 |
| Birmingham | 1962 |
| March on Washington/JFK assassinated | 1963 |
| Segregation banned in public places/24th amendment/mississippi freedom summer | 1964 |
| Selma/voting act/Watts riots/Malcolm X assassinated | 1965 |
| Meredith march/chicago/Vietnam war | 1966 |
| MLK speaks out against war/Kerner report | 1967 |
| "A fateful year"/poor people's campaign | 1968 |
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