Tracy High School
HA 2
Phase I Timeline
1875
Civil Rights Act is passed
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
1877
Southern States place voting
restrictions on African
American voters and
institute Jim Crow.
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Please identify four ways Southern States violated
African American voting rights.
What was Jim Crow?
1883
The Supreme Court rules
the Civil Rights Act of 1875
unconstitutional.
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Why did the Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights
Act of 1875 unconstitutional?
1896
The Supreme Court issues a
ruling in Plessy vs.
Ferguson.
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How did the Supreme Court rule in this case?
1945
World War II ends.
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Identify three ways World War II helped set the stage
for the modern civil rights movement?
1946
President Harry Truman
issues Executive Order
9981.
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How did President Truman support civil rights
through Executive Order 9981?
1946
The Supreme Court issues a
ruling in Morgan vs.
Virginia.
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How did the Supreme Court rule in this case?
1950
The Supreme Court issues a
ruling in Sweat vs. Painter.
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How did the Supreme Court rule in this case?
1954
The Supreme Court issues a
ruling in Brown vs. Board of
Education.
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How did the Supreme Court rule in this case?
1955
The Supreme Court orders
school desegregation.
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Why was Emmett Till a symbol to the civil rights
generation?
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Why did President Eisenhower intervene in the Little
Rock Crisis?
Emmett Till is murdered.
1957
Rosa Parks is arrested, and
the Montgomery Bus
Boycott begins.
Little Rock faces school
desegregation crisis.
1960
Lunch counter sit-ins.
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What type of method did CORE and SNCC use to
desegregate the lunch counters?
1961
Freedom riders travel
through the South?
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What was the goal of the freedom riders?
1962
James Meredith integrates
Ole Miss (University of
Mississippi).
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What was President Kennedy’s response to James
Meredith’s attempt to integrate Ole Miss.
1963
Birmingham and the
University of Alabama are
integrated.
President Kennedy sends a
civil rights bill to Congress.
Medgar Evers is murdered.
March on Washington takes
place.
Birmingham church bombing
kills four little girls.
President Kennedy is
assassinated.
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What was the goal of the March on Washington?
Freedom Summer
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1964
What did the leaders and activists begin to focus on
after the church bombing in Birmingham killed four
little girls?
Three civil rights workers
are murdered.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is
passed.
1965
March from Selma to
Montgomery.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
is passed.
What was the goal of Freedom Summer?
What were the main characteristics of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964?
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What role did the violence shown on television play
in this march?
What were the main characteristics of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965?