Study guide: Timeline of US Segregation

Course Outline

  1. Segregation and Early Federal Action

Key Dates

  1. 1870the 15th Amendment was adopted
  2. 1941Executive Order 8802 ended segregation in the US Army
  3. 1954Brown v. Board of Education was recorded as a civil rights milestone
  4. 1955Rosa Parks was arrested and the Montgomery Bus Boycott took place
  5. 1957the Little Rock Nine confronted school segregation and President Eisenhower was associated with this milestone
  6. 1961the Freedom Riders participated in the civil rights movement
  7. 1963the March on Washington took place
  8. 1964the Civil Rights Act was enacted
  9. 1965Bloody Sunday and the Civil Rights Act were recorded as civil rights milestones

1. Segregation and Early Federal Action

Essential Points

  • Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in the United States from the end of the 19th century.

Memory Hook

1870 → end of the 19th century → 1941 → 1948

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1. Which 1957 milestone involved the Little Rock Nine and President Eisenhower?

2. Which federal action in 1941 ended segregation in the U.S. Army?

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Jim Crow laws ?

End of the 19th century

1941

Executive Order 8802

15th Amendment — year?

1870

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