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Civil Rights Movement Timeline

There were many key leaders within the civil rights movement, including Harriet Tubman and Oscar Dunn.
Civil Rights Movement

Long before Martin Luther King Jr. walked onto the civil rights stage, many important events took place in the civil rights movement for equality and peace. Many civil rights leaders went before Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech and many came after. Kidzworld has highlighted some of the important dates and events that took place over the past few hundred years that made America the country it is today.

July 2,1777

  • Vermont is the first American state to abolish slavery.

    • March 3, 1820

  • The Missouri Compromise is enacted; slavery is banned everywhere north of Missouri, but is still legal in the southern United States.

    • September 17, 1849

  • Harriet Tubman escapes slavery in Maryland and spends the next several years helping more than 300 people escape to free territory by way of the Underground Railroad.

    • April 12, 1861

  • The Civil War begins.

    • July 17, 1862

  • Congress gives President Abraham Lincoln the green light to allow black people to join the military.

    • January 31, 1865

  • The Thirteenth Amendment is passed and slavery is officially abolished from the United States.

    • April 15, 1865

  • President Abraham Lincoln, the president who abolished slavery, is assassinated.

    • June 13, 1868

  • Ex-slave Oscar Dunn becomes Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.

    • July 28, 1868

  • The Fourteenth Amendment is passed giving black citizens in America full citizenship.

    • March 30, 1870

  • The right to vote is granted to all American males (other than Native Americans), regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude (so even men who had previously been slaves could now vote).

    • March 1, 1875

  • Civil Rights Act is passed giving all black citizens the right to equal treatment in public and on any public transportation.

    • November 26, 1883

  • US Supreme Court declares the Civil Rights Act to be unconstitutional because laws covered by the Civil Rights Act should be left up to individual states, not the federal government. Individual states now again allowed to discriminate in any way they want against black citizens.

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