The document summarizes key events and developments during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, including the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments that abolished slavery and granted citizenship and voting rights to freed slaves. It discusses Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation and the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. It also outlines different types of nonviolent protests used during the movement, such as bus boycotts, freedom rides, sit-ins, and marches.