The Road To Desegregation
A few important milestones
1865 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery
1868 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to newly freed people
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
1915 Supreme Court outlaws Grandfather clause
1942 Executive Order 8802 prohibits hiring based on race
1948 Military integrated
1955-1957 Montgomery bus boycott
1963 Bombing of Birmingham church
1964 Civil Rights Act
1968 MLK assassinated
1968 Green v. County Schools
1974 Milliken v. Bradley
1991 Board of Ed. v. Dowell
1978 Bakke v. Regents of University of California
1992 Freeman v. Pitts
2003 Grutter v. Bolinger
1868 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to newly freed people
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
1915 Supreme Court outlaws Grandfather clause
1942 Executive Order 8802 prohibits hiring based on race
1948 Military integrated
1955-1957 Montgomery bus boycott
1963 Bombing of Birmingham church
1964 Civil Rights Act
1968 MLK assassinated
1968 Green v. County Schools
1974 Milliken v. Bradley
1991 Board of Ed. v. Dowell
1978 Bakke v. Regents of University of California
1992 Freeman v. Pitts
2003 Grutter v. Bolinger
SOURCES
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).