African American History

By lucadergro
  • 1525

    First slaves were shipped to the US

  • Pennsylvanian Abolition Society (PAS) founded

  • Slave Trade Act

    slave trade was prohibited in the British Empire

  • African Methodist Episcopal founded

    first church founded for and by black people

  • The North Star was founded

    Frederick Douglass founded first anti-slavery newspaper

  • John Brown-Raid in Virginia

  • Confederate States of America were founded

    (SC,Miss., Florida, Alabama, GA, LA, TX)
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    American Civil War

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    All slaves should be freed after the war

  • 13th Amendment that abolished slavery

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    Black Codes in the south

  • First KKK was founded (lasted only until 1870/71)

  • 14th Amendment; guaranteed citizenship

  • 15th Amendment; gave voting rights

  • ''seperate but equal''

  • NAACP founded

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    First World War

    around 200,000 African Americans served

  • 2nd KKK was founded

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    Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s

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    The Great Depression

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    The New Deal

  • Supreme Court overturned ''seperate but equal'' ruling and stopped segregation in schools

  • Rosa Parks incident

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Freedom Rides

  • ''I have a dream''

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Malcom X was shot

  • Selma to Montgomery - Bloody Sunday

  • Black Panther Party founded

  • MLK was assassinated

  • First TV-Show by Oprah Winfrey (-2011)

  • Rodney King

  • Barack Obama was voted President of the USA

  • BLM movement started

  • Unite the Right Rally in Charlotte

  • Death of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

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