Black History Month

By parker.smith

  • The First Slaves

    Arrived in Virginia

  • Stono Rebellion

    Slave rebellion, largest uprising in British mainland colonies

  • Lucy Terry

    Became the earliest known enslaved poet.

  • Crispus Attucks

    Killed in Boston Massacre

  • Phillis Wheatley

    Her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is published, making her the first Aftrican American to do so

  • Gabriel Prosser

    Organized a slave revolt, rebels were hanged

  • Slavery made illegal

    US Constitution states that congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808

  • Invention of the Cotton GIn

    Eli Whitney's invention increased the demand for slave labor

  • Congress bans importation of slaves from Africa

  • Missouri Compromise

    Bans slavery North of the southern boundary of MIssouri

  • Denmark Vesey

    enslaved African who planned a revolt to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina, plot is discovered, rebels are hanged

  • Nat Turner

    enslaved preacher, leads the most significant slave revolt in American history

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    begins publishing the Liberator, an abolitionist paper

  • Amistad Case*

    Slaves being transported on Spanish ship overtake it and sail to Long Island

  • Wilmot Proviso

    attempts to ban slavery gained from Mexican-American War

  • Harriet Tubman

    escapes slavery and leads the Underground Railroad

  • Federal Fugitive Slave Law

    Providing for the return slaves who had escaped

  • Compromise of 1850

    California is admitted as a free state, Utah and Mexican Territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty

  • Frederick Douglass

    launches his abolitionist newspaper

  • Sojourner Truth

    Speaking for abolitionism at women's conference

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Established territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise

  • Dredd Scott Case

    Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states

  • John Brown

    captured federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry

  • Confederacy founded

    deep south succeeds

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Slaves within Confederate states are free

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Established by congress to protect newly freed slaves

  • Civil war ends

  • Lincoln is assassinated

  • Ku Klux Klan

    formed in Tennessee

  • Slavery in US is ended

    Slaves in Texas receive news of the end of the civil wat two months later

  • 13th amendment ratified

    Prohibits slavery

  • Series of reconstruction acts are passed

    5 military districts are created

  • Black codes passed by southern states

    Restricts rights of newly freed slaves

  • 14th Amendment

    Defined citizenship, everyone born is US

  • 15th amendment

    giving blacks the right to vote

  • Hiram Revels

    First African American senator

  • Reconstruction ends in the south

  • Booker T Washington founds Tuskegee Institute

    Higher learning for African Americans

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Racial segregation is constitutional

  • NAACP

    founded in New York by W.E.B Dubious

  • Harlem Renaissance flourishes

    New black cultural identity

  • Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier

    Signed by the Dodgers

  • Harry S Truman issued executive order integrating US forces

  • Brown Vs Board of Education

    Racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional

  • Emmett Till

    Murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman

  • Rosa Parks

    refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "Colored Section"

  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine black students are blocked from entering a school

  • Greensboro four

    Four black students had a sit in at a segregated lunch counter

  • Freedom Riders

    Bus trips to the south to test out new laws to prohibit segregation

  • Jackie Robinson

    First African American inducted into the baseball hall of fame

  • The March on Washington for jobs and Freedom/I have a dream speech

    attended by about 250,000, Martin Luther King Jr's speech

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights act

    prohibits discrimination

  • Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace prize

  • State Troopers violently attack peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Alabama

  • Black Panthers

    Founded by Huey Nelson and Bobby Seale

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Appointed to Supreme Court, first Black justice

  • Shirley Chisolm

    First black congress woman

  • Martin Luther King Jr assassinated

    Memphis Tn

  • The first race riots in decades errupt

    Los Angeles

  • Barack Obama

    First African American president , defeating John McCain