American history

By DAvidreinertsen

  • the first slave

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    American History

  • declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May 17)

  • Rosa Parks in the buss

  • James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi (Oct. 1). President Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops after rioting breaks out.

  • Martin Luther King's speech

  • KKK was established

  • Black panthers was founded

  • Guion Bluford Jr. was the first African-American in space. He took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the space shuttle Challenger on August 30.

  • Colin Powell becomes the first African American U.S. Secretary of State

  • Condoleezza Rice becomes the first black female U.S. Secretary of State.

  • Barack Obama Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African American to be nominated as a major party nominee for president.