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1865-1965 Civil Rights Legal Wins

CHART of MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS WINS 1865-1965
The walls around Sweet Auburn Go Up after the 1906 Race Riot & are then knocked down by targeted Legal Wins.
YEARS CIVIL RIGHTS LEGAL  WINS & ORGANIZATIONS YEARS PRIMITIVE  LEGAL PRACTICES & VALUES  THAT ARE GRADUALLY OVERTURNED
1865, 1868, 1870 13,14,15 Amendments 1865, 1868, 1870 Slavery Ended
Voting Rights for ALL males Institutionalized
1905 July 9, 1905 Niagara Movement Atlantans Jesse Max Barber, George A. Towns, John Hope, Alonzo Herndon and his son Norris Herndon were in attendance. UGLY Walls that Went Up Without legal Civil Rights:

  • Lynching (crowd based murders)
  • Klu Klux Klan (hate group)
  • Jim Crow (Laws legalizing segregation)
1906 September 22, 1906 Race Riot violence creates Sweet Auburn as a “safe place” to be and compacts an educated population into a small area that MLK grows up within.
1909 NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Dedicated Organization actively pursues Civil Rights legal wins.
1890’s – 2022 Anti-Lynching Awareness-The fight for a federal anti-lynching law spanned over 120 years, with numerous failed attempts. The need for such legislation was highlighted by the horrific murder of Emmett Till in 1955, which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.  Lynching gradually fades but not specifically outlawed until 2022.
1954 Brown VS the Board of Education Segregation is illegal. This is the pivotal legal win by the NAACP for Civil Rights to become reality. In May 1954, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9–0 decision in favor of the Browns. The Court ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” and therefore laws that impose them violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
1956 Supreme Court as Browder v. Gayle, ruled the statute mandating segregation of Montgomery buses unconstitutional. Together with the murder of  Emmitt Till, the modern Civil Rights Movement is galvanized.
1957 SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). MLK is the first president. Civil Rights Leaders actively work to communicate and enforce the law in the South.
1960 SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Coalition Students actively work to communicate and enforce the law in the South.
1964 The Civil Rights Act Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act “remains one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history”.
1965 Voting Rights Act 1887-1965 This law banned states from making it difficult for people to vote.
Jim Crow Laws abolished 1965
1968 Fair Housing Act Klu Klux Klan withers
2022 Emmett Till Anti lynching Act

Please visit this site for a detailed historical timeline of legal wins starting 1948: https://www.history.com/articles/civil-rights-movement-timeline