was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina
Lucy Terry becomes the earliest known black poet
Crispus Attucks killed in Boston Massacre
Phillis Wheatley published Religious and Moral
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
Gabriel Prosser organized a slave revolt
Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa
Denmark Vessey plans a slave revolt in South Carolina
Hiram Revels of Mississippi is elected as the first African American senator
Nat Turner's Rebellion
William Lloyd Garrison published the Liberator
Wilmot Proviso
Frederick Douglass launches his abolitionist newspaper
Harriet Tubman is one of the greatest leaders of the Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Law is enacted
Missouri Compromise bans slavery
Compromise of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kansas Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Case
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
The Confederacy is founded
Emancipation proclamation is issued
Freedmen's Bureau is established
Ku Klux Klan is formed
Thirteenth Amendment is ratified
Black codes are passed by southern states
Civil War Ends
Lincoln is assassinated
A series of Reconstruction acts are passed
Fourteenth Amendment is ratified
Fifteenth Amendment is ratified
Reconstruction ends in the South
Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Booker T Washington published Up From Slavery, his autobiography
NAACP is founded by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Harlem Renaissance Flourishes
Shuffle along is the first Major African American musical on Broadway
Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier
After WW2 President Harry Trueman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces
Brown vs. Board of Education declares racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white man
Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive order 10590 to enforce nondiscrimanition in employment
African American boy, Emmett Till, is brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman , the two white men murderers were let go by a white jury, they later boast about the murder. This spured the civil rights movement
Browder v. Gayle- the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Alabama laws requiring segregation of buses
Montgomery Bus Boycott
"Little Rock Nine" nine black students blocked from entering the school on orders of Governor Orval Faubus, after a year of violent threats, several of the "little Rock 9 manage to graduate from Centeral High
"greensboro 4"- four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter
Freedom Riders, student volunteer groups involving more than 1000 black and white students,, sponsored by C.O.R.E and S.N.C.C, are attacked by angry mobs
March on Washington attended by about 250,000, M.L.K.Jr. delivers "I have a dream"
Civil Rights Act is signed by President Johnson
M.L.K.Jr. receives Nobel Piece Prize
"Bloody Sunday"- state troops violently attack peaceful marchers led by M.L.K.Jr.
Black panthers founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to supreme Court, where he becomes first Black Supreme Court Justice
M.L.K.Jr. assasinated
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in sale, rental, an financing of housing
First Race Riots- erupt in Los Angeles after african american Rodney King was beaten by four white poliece officers with videotaped footage
Barack Obama becomes the first African American President