African American History Timeline

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    Slavery

    There are 27 million people in slavery.They are forced to work without pay, under threat of violence, and they’re unable to walk away.They would work in brothels, factories, mines, farm fields, restaurants, construction sites and private homes.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.

  • Civil war

    Civil war
    620,000 men died in the civil war. The first shot was fired from a battleship named the Merrimac.

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865.

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman freed 300 slaves from Canada, 11 of them where children.

  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance
    The years following the Civil War brought a steady stream of African- Americans to the North from the Southern states.

  • Rosa Park’s bus boycott

    Rosa Park’s bus boycott
    Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Blacks also were required to sit at the back of the bus.

  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    The little rock nine was a group of African Americans students enrolled in Little Rock Central high School in 1957.

  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia
    At the age of 18, Mildred became pregnant, and in June 1958 the couple traveled to Washington, D.C. to marry, thereby evading Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which made interracial marriage a crime.

  • Martin Luther King Assassination

    Martin Luther King Assassination
    In the early evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by a single shot which struck his face and neck.

  • Jakie Robinson

    Jakie Robinson
    born January 31, 1919, Died October 24, 1972, Jackie Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era.