Black rights

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  • 1650

    Capture and Enslavement of African men, women and children who were taken to the America’s for work on plantations and in mines.
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    Slave Trade

  • 1880s

    Jim Crow laws - state laws, aimed at enforcing segregation between whites and blacks in the use of transport and public facilities and in the outlawing of marriage between the two racial groups.

  • No Lynching year

    This was the first year since 1881 without a lynching.

  • 1954 – Brown v. Board

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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Little Rock Nine

    U.S. troops are ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent white mobs from attacking black students enrolled at a previously all-white high school. The group of nine students about to enter the high school who are known as the “Little Rock Nine”.

  • Sit-In

  • The freedom Rides

    Riders left Washington on May 4, 1961 and traveled without incident across Virginia and North Carolina. They encountered violence for the first time at the bus terminal in Rock Hill, South Carolina when several young white males beat black riders who attempted to use a “whites only” restroom.

  • March on Washington

    Civil rights and labor organizations stage the March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before 250,000 people.

  • Voting Rights Action

    In Alabama, police violence mars the Selma-to-Montgomery march protesting discrimination in voting.
    President Johnson signs the Voting Right Act, which outlaws literacy tests and other obstacles to black voting.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The man convicted of his murder, James Earl Ray, was sentenced to 99 years prison but he denied having anything to do with the murder.
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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    A political and social protest campaign started in Montgomery, Alabama. The idea was to show opposition against the city’s policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. Put the bus systems out of business by not using the buses/not paying for that service. after the arrest of Rosa Parks.