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Ruling in Virginia that made black women pass on their ownership status -
A black men who escaped slavery was one of the first of many men to die facing British troops and one of the many black men to die in the Revolutionary War. -
The U.S. Constitution officially made slavery a part of the new nation and would support slave states -
A Machine to remove seeds from cotton would make slave owning plantations able to operate at higher efficiency creating a greater demand for slavery -
First of many government laws that would give slave owners to chase after those trying to escape slavery -
First of several free states that would ban black men from voting, showing even when free black people were far from equal -
A compromise allowing Missouri to be a free state but other states above it would half to be free -
Supreme court decision that said definitively black people were property with no rights -
Attempt by white and black men led by Jim Brown to take up arms and free slaves. Biggest sign of upcoming civil war -
Officially made the Civil War a war to end slavery in the country -
At the Cotton States Exposition Booker T gave a speech that initially pleased everyone, later Dubois would say he only really pleased the white part of the audience. -
The relatively new NAACP wins its first of many court cases, in this case overturning the exclusionary voting laws -
Racist film that would further cement the want for Jim Crow attitudes and laws while also bringing back the KKK -
A bus boycott in the deep segregated south serves as the first spot light of MLK and his protest methods -
After a march with Dr. King, Stolkey Carmichael gave a more aggressive speech in which he proclaimed Black Power was needed