Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992
- Created by: sair2215
- Created on: 17-05-19 23:18
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1862-1867- Plains WarsHomestead Act and Pacific Railway Act |
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1865: End of American Civil War |
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1866: Civil Rights Act |
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1867: Congressional reconstruction |
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1868: Ratification of the 14th Amendment: |
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1869: Several organisations established |
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1870: 15th Amendment |
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1871: Reservation policy begins 1871-1872: Testing of the 14th and 15th Amendment by women |
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1873: Molly Maguires Strikes |
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1874: Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
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1975: Civil Rights ActMinor V Happersett |
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1876: Battle of Little Bighorn |
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1877: Hayes-Tilden Compromise |
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1881: Tennessee segregates rail travel Booker T Washington Tuskegee Institute |
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1883: United States V Harris |
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1886: Haymarket AffairAmerican Federation of Labor (AFL) |
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1887: Dawes Severalty Act |
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1890: Sherman Anti-Trust ActMassacre at Wounded KneeNational American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
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1892: Homestead Strike |
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1894: Pullman Strike |
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1896: Plessy v Ferguson |
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1898: Wilkins v MississippiCurtis Act |
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1902: Cherokee Nation v Hitchcock |
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1903: Lone Wolf v Hitchcock |
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1905: Lochner v New York WEB Du Bois |
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1909: National Association of Advancement for Coloured People (NAACP) |
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1911: Society of American Indians |
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1913: Congressional Union (CU) |
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1914: Clayton Anti-Trust ActFormation of UNIA |
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1915: Birth of a NationBeginning of influx of AA's to North |
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1916: Congressional Union renamed National Women's Party (NOW) |
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1917: Some states give women the vote Birth control developments |
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1918: National War Labor Board (NWLB) |
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1919: 19th Amendment |
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1920: 19th Amendment ratified |
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1924: Indian Citizenship Act |
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1925: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (BSCP) Established |
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1928: Publication of the Meriam Report |
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1929: The wall Street Crash |
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1930: Nation of Islam (NOI) |
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1933: The New Deal |
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1934: Indian Reorganisation (Wheeler Howard) Act |
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1935: NIRA unconstitutional Wagner Act |
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1937: Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)Congress of Industrial Organisations (CIO) |
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1938: Fair Labor Standards Act |
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1940: Executive order 8587 |
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1941: USA enters WW2 |
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1942: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) |
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1944: National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) |
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1947: Taft- Hartley Act |
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1948: Harrison v LaveenDesegregation of armed forces |
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1953: Policy of Termination introduced Fair employment regulations |
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1954: Brown v Board of Education |
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1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott (MBB) AFL-CIO merge |
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1956: Indian Vocational Training Act MBB decision |
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1957: Little Rock Nine |
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1960: Sit-insStudent Non-Violent Committee |
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1961: JFK elected Affirmative Action begins Freedom RidesNational Indian Youth Council |
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1963: Equal Pay Act'The Feminine Mystique''JFK assassination Birmingham March on Washington |
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1964: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society The Civil Rights ActThe Economic Opportunities Act |
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1965: Selma MarchMalcolm X assassination Race Riots |
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1966: Black Panthers foundedNational Organisation for Women (NOW) founded |
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1968: American Indian Movement (AIM)Black Power at the Olympics |
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1969: Siege of Alcatraz |
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1970: Occupational Safety and Health Act |
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1971: Occupation of Mount RushmoreNative American Rights Fund (NARF) |
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1972: Equal Rights Amendment Occupation of Bureau of Indian Affairs |
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1973, Roe V Wade |
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1974: Oneida v Oneida and Madison Countries, New York |
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1975: Indian Self- Determination and Education Assistance Act |
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1976: Fisher V Montana |
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1978: Religious freedom Act Indian Child Welfare Act |
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1980: United States v the Sioux Nation |
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1981: PATCO strike |
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1982: Seminole Tribe V Butterworth |
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1984: Jesse Jackson Geraldine Ferraro |
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1986: Charrier v Bell |
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1988: Jesse Jackson again |
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1990: Union Apathy Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) |
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