black history month by dominic nebel & justin griser
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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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