Civil Rights Timeline

Civil Rights Timeline

1787 | American Constitution drafted
1791 | Bill of Rights added to the Constitution
1861-65 | American Civil War
1862 | Emancipation Proclamation
1865 | 13th Amendment abolishes slavery
1868 | 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship for all races
1870 | 15th Amendment guarantees the vote for all…

1966 | The idea of Black Power was introduced by Stokely Carmichael
| Chicago Freedom Movement led by Martin Luther King
| Meredith March
| Black Panther Party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
1967 | State laws forbidding inter-racial marriage were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court
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