Black History Month

By KatieBrooke

  • The First African slaves arrive in Virginia

  • The New York slave revolt of 1712

  • Stono Rebellion

    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

  • Period: to

    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

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