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slavery started in 1619 and this would lead to many problems in the world.
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a great event in the world when slavery finally ended after a very long time
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The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee by ex-Confederates (May).
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Howard University's law school becomes the country's first black law school.
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey. -
1965 Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assassinated (Feb. 21). -
1968 Eyewitnesses to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eyewitnesses to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. (April 4). -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing (April 11).
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2009
Barack Obama Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African-American president and the country's 44th president. -
there has been riots here and there but mostly its all good now
