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George Washington Carver
George Washington examined peanuts. He lived with a white family because his mother was a slave.Carver was one of the best-known African-Americans of his era. There is no date of his date. There is no exact date of his death. -
Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick is born as a slave. No known day number on when he was born. He was an abolitionist, writer and orator Frederick Douglass is the most important black American leader of the nineteenth century. -
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet is born. There is no exact date of when she was born. She was a slavery abolitionist when she left in her slave Owner in 1849. She died March 10, 1930. -
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Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American female pilot. She was the first African-American to earn her pilot’s license. She completed the impossible because in the 1920’s it was almost impossible to become an African- American pilot. They just called her Bessie Coleman but her real name was Elizabeth Coleman and Bessie was just her nickname. She died in a plane accident from falling from a long distance in 1926. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is born. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson is born. -
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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery boycott which was a 13-month protest which ended in the Supreme Court removing segregation on public buses. He was born on January and died on April. He wrote the "I have a dream" speech. He also Organized “The Great March” in Washington which was a march for different races to get jobs and freedom. He led the Birmingham Campaign which was a campaign to bring attention to the integration efforts to African Americans. -
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Shirely Chisholm
First African American woman elected to the United States Congress on 1968.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1924. She went on to run for the 1972 Democratic nomination for the presidency—becoming the first African-American candidate to do so.
She died in Florida on January 1, 2005. 11 years after her death, in November 2015, she was posthumously awarded the distinguished Presidential Medal of Freedom. -
Malcolm X is Born.
He advocated the separation of black and white Americans and rejected the civil rights movement for its emphasis on integration. -
Fredrick Douglass' death
Fredrick Douglass died as an inspirational leader on February 20, 1895. -
Jackie Robinson and Baseball.
Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers and becomes the first African American to play baseball. -
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Jackie Robinson and baseball
Jackie's career lasted from April 15, 1947 to until 1957. There is no exact date for the end of his carrer. -
Rosa Parks
refused to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. -
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Montgomery Boycott
The boycott lasted 381 days. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges is born -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby is the first African-American child to enter an all white school. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is born -
Michelle Obama
Michelle is born on January. -
Malcolm X gets assassinated.
Malcolm X is assassinated. -
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Barack Obama as President
Barack is the first African-American President of the U.S. He is still alive today. -
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Michelle as first lady of the U.S
Michelle is the first African-American frist lady.
