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on this day harriet escaped from slaverly with 11 other slaves
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The American Civil War, 1861–1865, resulted from long-standing sectional differences and questions not fully resolved when the United States Constitution was ratified in 1789. With the defeat of the Southern Confederacy and the subsequent passage of the XIII, XIV and XV amendments to the Constitution, the Civil War’s lasting effects include abolishing the institution of slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as a single, indivisible nation rather than a loosely bound collecti
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on this day the 13 amendment was made
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this amendment was to abolish slavery
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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. On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks initiated a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality.
She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section g -
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. it was Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States
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on this day jackie robinson became the first african american major leauge baseball player
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on this day emmett till was murdered for flirting with a white woman
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little rock 9nine African-American teenagers held the line against an angry mob protesting integration in front of Little Rock's Central High School, the white didnt want them to join there school
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martin luther king jr. had a speech about him having a dream where that black and whites can be equal
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed for for his speech.
