The document summarizes key events in the history of the civil rights movement for African Americans from the late 1700s to the late 1900s. It notes that slavery was abolished in Vermont in the late 1700s and banned nationally in 1808. In the 1860s, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and the Ku Klux Klan was formed. Voting rights were extended to African American men in 1870. The civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s with the Brown vs Board of Education ruling and events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Major legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed following protests and activism.