-1865: The Civil War ended. The North won, and they created the 13th,14th, and 15th amendment, and enforced it throughout the whole nation, especially for the South.
-1876 to 1965: The Jim Crow Laws were established in the South to get around the 13th,14th, and 15th amendments, to continue to enable segregation.
-1896: In the case Plessy V.S. Ferguson, the argument "Separate but equal" was at last approved by the Supreme Court. This case establishes basic race relations in America.
-1935: Baltimore Court rules Donald Murray must be admitted to white law school, which upset a lot of White people .
-1938: Supreme Court rules Lloyd Lionel Gaines must be admitted to the University of Missouri Law School, and it earned more disapproval from the White people .
-1950: Supreme Court rules in Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma that segregation of law school program is unconstitutional.
-1954: Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine is over-turned by Brown v. Board of Education.
-1955: Second Brown decision calls for school desegregation.
-1957: Arkansas governor Faubus calls out National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock High School. -- President Dwight Eisenhower sends 1,000 paratroopers to restore order and escort the black students to class.
-1960: Four students stage a sit-in a in Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's department store after being refused service at the all White's lunch counter because they were black.
-1962: James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at the University of Mississippi, creating huge conflict in the south.
-1963: Alabama governor George Wallace attempts to prevent the desegregation of public schools. - John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
-1965: James Meredith is shot during his Walk Against Fear.
-1971: In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, Supreme Court decides courts can order busing to desegregate schools.
-2010: Today, segregation is very rare, though still exist everywhere in the world.
-Kevin He
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ReplyDeleteHmm. Is there a way for you both to combine your two time lines into one? They repeat a lot of information and are a bit redundant. Also, both of you need to focus on civil rights issues since the 60s.
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