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Missiouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. To balance the number of "slave states" and "free states," -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Because she was a slave, and owners did not record their slaves' birthdates, the exact date of Harriet's birth is unknown. Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849, fleeing to Philadelphia. Tubman decided to escape following a bout of illness and the death of her owner in 1849. Tubman feared that her family would be further severed, and feared for own her fate as a sickly slave of low economic value. -
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Civil War
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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.[1] Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six deca -
Emmet Till Murder
Emmet Hill was born on July 25, 1941 and was killled on the 28th of August 1955. He was killed for repededly flirting with a white woman. Till was returned to Chicago and his mother, who had raised him mostly by herself, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing. -
Rosa Parks bus boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded this Montgomery City bus to go home from work. The seats of the bus quickly filled and another white man enterd the bus. Once he recognized the bus was full he insisted the blacks give up there seat. Rosa refused to give up her seat and was rememberd for the rest of her life as the brave one. She was tooken to jail , -
I have a dream sppech
It's a great day to revisit the "I Have A Dream" speech he delivered in 1963 in Washington, D.C. This was the main cause of his death because this deffinitly made them believe he would succed . -
Sixteen Street Baptist Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S. 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights (1964)
An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education -
MLK assasinnation
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the opening acts which plunged 1968 into a year of turmoil. The reasinning of Martins assasination was because some whites started to believe he would succed, -
Civil Rights (1968)
In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson failed to persuade Congress to pass a civil rights bill with a fair housing provision. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., generated the support needed to pass the bill two years later.
