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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress
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Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people.
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In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law that required separate blacks and whites on railroad
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement"
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he broke baseball's color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Rosa parks refused to give up to her seat to a white man and she got arrested.
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4 arican-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store.
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in his speech, he said 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal'."
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members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church
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two people of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia
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Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
