Racial Differences Through Out The Years

Civil War Era:

• End of Civil War 1865: North vs. South, the Union wins the war against the Confederates, the victory puts an "end to slavery".

Reconstruction Era 1860-1880:

• 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments were created to bring the North and South back together.

-13th Amendment December 6, 1865: This Amendment was created put an end to slavery.

-14th Amendment July 9, 1868: This Amendment was created to give equal rights to all the citizens of the United States, born or naturalized.

-15th Amendment February 3, 1870: This Amendment was created to give the right to vote to all citizens of the United States.

Jim Crow South Era 1875-1965:

• Jim Crow Laws were created to get around the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments and keep segregation and discrimination in the south. For example, one Jim crow law states that as long as seating on trains and buses were "Separate but equal" they were constitutional. (But was it really equal or did the white people just over look that part in court? -Mikiko)
  
  
• Plessy V.S Ferguson 1895: This court case ruled that "separate but equal" was constitutional. It took 59 years until this was unconstitutional
  
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP: This association was created February 12, 1909. They were created to protect the rights of colored people.

Peek of Civil Rights Movement 1950's-1970's:

• Children's March 1963: A Major non violent act to bring freedom, equal rights, and a to end segregation. This march was organized by Martin Luther King the children in Birmingham, Alabama.
  
  
• Brown v.s board of Education: Fought in the courts that separate was not equal and won!
  
  
  
• Little Rock Nine 1957: The first nine African American students to be integrated in to all white high school. They were integrated into Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
  

Present day Integration status:

• American schools 2000-2010: Schools are not segregated by law or force, yet they are still segregated by the Achievement Gap, race, sexual orientation, superficial stereotypes, cliques, and economic differences.

-Kaitlyn & Mikiko