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Transported via the English ship the White Lion to Jamestown where they were sold.
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Slave rebellion in the colony of South Carolina. Largest uprising in the British Mainland colonies. 25 colonists and 35-50 Africans were killed.
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The earliest known Black American white poet. Wrote about the last Native American attack on her village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Her poem, Bar's Fight, was not published until 1855.
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Regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, thus making him the first American Revolution casualty.
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Wrote a book titled "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" is published, making her the first published African American.
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Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African-American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
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Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
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Slavery was made illegal in the Northwest territory. The U.S. constitution states that congress may not ban slave trade until 1808
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Bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
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An enslaved African-American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 co-conspirators are hanged.
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The first abolitionist newspaper was published. He becomes one of the most famous figures in the unit.
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Most significant slave uprising in American history; Occurred in Southampton County, VA, and militia finally ended rebellion.
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Introduced by democratic representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in attempts to ban slavery in territory gained from the Mexican American Wars.
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Fredrick Douglas tags along in the publishing of the abolitionist newspapers going around the north
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She becomes one of the most influential escape artistes and helps many slaves escape to freedom
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Provided for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines.
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California is admitted as a free state and other territories won in Mexican American war are decided by popular sovereignty.
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Becomes one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery movements.
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Established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions.
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Holds that congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states, and furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
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Him and 21 followers capture the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (Now in West Virginia), in an attempt to launch a slave revolt.
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The confederacy is founded when the deep south secedes, starting the beginning of the civil war.
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Created to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks.
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Black Codes are passed by Southern states, drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves.
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Passed, carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves.
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Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery.
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Ended at Appomattox courthouse when the confederacy surrendered.
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Lincoln was shot in the head by John W. Booth.
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Slavery in the U.S. is effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally receive the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier
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The white knights of the Ku Klux Klan was formed as a white supremacy organization to fight against minority's rights. Formed by ex-confederates in Tennessee.
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The fourteenth amendment to the constitution is ratified, defining citizenship. Individuals born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens, including those born as slaves. This nullifies the Dred Scott case (1857), which had ruled that blacks were not citizens.
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Allowed black the right to vote
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During reconstruction, sixteen blacks served in congress and 600 served in legislation.
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Reconstruction ends in south; Troops are drawn back from south, and civil rights for African Americans rights quickly erode.
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School becomes one of the leading schools of higher learning for African Americans.
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Landmark court case that shows racial segregation as constitutional if both conditions for each race are the same.
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Served as the country's most influential African American civil rights activists.
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This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
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First African American Baseball Payer in Major Leagues
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Although African-Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
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Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
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A young black boy, Emmett Till, is brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Two white men charged with the crime are acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder. The public outrage generated by the case helps spur the civil rights movement.
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Refuses to give up her seat at the front of the ¨colored section¨ of a bus to a white passenger (December 1st). In response to her arrest Montgomery´s black community launched a successful year-long bus boycott. Montgomery´s buses are desegregated on December 21st, 1956.
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Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus (September 24th). Federal troops and the National Guard are called to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the ¨Little Rock Nine.¨ Despite a year of violent threats, several of the ¨Little Rock Nine" manage to graduate from Central High.
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Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter (February 1st). Six months later the "Greensboro Four" are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South.
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Act of white supremacist terrorism in Alabama. Killed 4 little girls.
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This was the largest demonstration ever seen in the Capital. Martin Luther King Jr. Gave his famous 'I have A Dream" speech.
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This was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstruction. It prohibits discrimination of any kind.
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He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America
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political party formed in order to protect black civilians from police brutality
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First Black supreme court justice
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financial housing.
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The end of King's civil rights movement legacy
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New York representative and first black woman in Congress
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Police Brutally Attacked a peaceful march and left many injured
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, greatly increasing the demand for slave labor.
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The first black woman to have a daytime television show
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First black man to command a space shuttle
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King is beaten to near death by police after resisting arrest.
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The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King.
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Becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Senator John McCain.
