Equal Rights Timeline Info.

A Timeline of the Struggle for Equal Rights in America
1865	13th Amendment outlaws slavery
1865	Ku Klux Klan (KKK) founded to maintain white supremacy through intimidation and violence
1865	Freedman's Bureau formed during Reconstruction to assist freed slaves in the South
1866	Civil Rights Act grants citizenship to native-born Americans except Indians
1868	14th Amendment grants equal protection of the laws to African Americans
1870	15th Amendment establishes the right of African American males to vote
1875	Civil Rights Act grants equal access to public accommodations
1883	Supreme Court nullifies Civil Rights Act of
1896	Supreme Court validates the principle of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson
1905	Niagara Movement founded to fight for school integration, voting rights, and assist African American political candidates, forerunner of the NAACP
1906	Greensburg, Indiana, race riot, the first of many in reaction to African American migration north
1909	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) formed to fight for civil rights through legal action and education
1915	Refounding of the Ku Klux Klan
1920	19th Amendment gives women the right to vote
1924	American Indians granted citizenship and the right to vote
1942	Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded to fight for civil rights using nonviolent, direct-action protests
1948	President Harry Truman ends segregation in the U.S. military
1954	In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court overturns the principle of "separate but equal"
1955	Rosa Parks begins the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957	President Dwight Eisenhower sends U.S. Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the desegregation of schools
1957	Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founded to coordinate localized southern efforts to fight for civil rights
1960	Sit-in at the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, February 1
1960	Hundreds of university students stage a sit-in at downtown stores in Nashville, Tennessee, to protest segregated lunch counters
1960	Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded to coordinate student-led efforts to end segregation
1960	Civil Rights Act reaffirms voting rights for all Americans
1961	Integrated groups of protesters join Freedom Rides on buses across the South to protest segregation
1963	Hundreds of thousands of Americans take part in the March on Washington to call for racial equality
1964	24th Amendment outlaws poll taxes for national elections
1964	Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination in public accommodations and by employers
1964	Organization for Afro-American Unity (OAU) formed to promote closer ties between African Americans and Africa
1965	Voting Rights Act nullifies local laws and practices that prevent minorities from voting
1965	Malcolm X assassinated
1968	Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated
1968	Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
1970	Voting Rights Act of 1965 renewed