Question

Put the events related to African Americans’ struggle against legal discrimination in the order they occurred.

Answer 1

1. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

2. Civil War (1861-1865)

3. Reconstruction era (1865-1877)

4. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

5. Jim Crow Laws (late 1800s-1960s)

6. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

7. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)

8. Little Rock Nine (1957)

9. Sit-ins and Freedom Rides (1960-1961)

10. March on Washington (1963)

11. Civil Rights Act (1964)

12. Voting Rights Act (1965)

13. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)