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First African contracted servants arrive in American colonies
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By this year, just about every colony in America had slaves brought from Africa
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Slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising
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American congress bans further importation of slaves
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Anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator is published and becomes a leading voice in the Abolitionist movement
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Emancipation was the freeing of 3 million slaves in the rebel states of the civil war
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Legislation was introduced (Laws)in the southern states which eventuated in separate schools for blacks and whites.
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Establishment of political protest movement who demanded civil rights for blacks
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By: Muddy waters
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By: Bessie Smith
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By: Skip James
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By: Vera Hall
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In WWII, many African Americans were ready to fight forRoosevelt the “Four Freedoms”
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By 1900, the unwritten colour line barring blacks from white teams in Pro. baseball was strictly enforced.
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By: Rosetta Tharpe
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By: Big Bill Broonzy
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On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools.
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In 1955, an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, was told by the bus driver to a white man. Rosa had refused, and was thrown to jail.
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By: Muddy Waters
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Central High School, located in the state capital of Little Rock was integrated
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Founded in 1942 by the civil rights leader James Farmer, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sought to end discrimination and improve race relations through direct action.
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In mid-September, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama during Sunday services; four young African-American girls were killed in the explosion.
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By: Etta James
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On August 28, 1963, some 250,000 people—both black and white—participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest demonstration in the history of the nation’s capital and the most significant display of the civil rights movement’s growing strength.
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Thanks to the campaign of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had begun to gain serious momentum in the United States by 1960.
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In the summer of 1964, civil rights organisations including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children.
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Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed in August 1965. The Voting Rights Act sought to overcome the legal barriers that still existed at the state and local level preventing blacks from exercising the right to vote given them by the 15th Amendment.
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By: J.B. Lenoir. This song was based on the writers friend, who got shot by a man, as if he was a dog.
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By: Big Mama Thornton
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By: Chris Thomas King
