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Free African Americans are allowed to enlist in the Continental Army
[Free Slave Soldiers](www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html) The Governor of Virginia promised freedom to any slaves enlisting in the Patriot Army to fight in the Revolutionary War. 300 black men joined every month to fight, not just for free America, but for their own freedom. -
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Civil Equality
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Gabriel Prosser
[Prosser](www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1576.html ) Gabriel Prosser was an educated slave that had black smithing skills that allowed him to work for money for other masters. With the money he earned he was able to raise a small army to try and take over the white slave masters in Richmond, Virginia. -
1807 International Slave Trade Abolished
[Freedom](www.history.com/...abolishes-the-african-slave-trade)U.S. Congress passes an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States from any foreign kingdom, place, or country. -
1831-1861 Slaves escape using the Underground Railroad
[Underground Railroad](www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones) Because the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 has been passed, slaves in the South knew if they could get to the North, they would be free. The Southern Slave owners would still not allow this, so they had to escape. Other free blacks helped these slaves by hiding them out during the day and helping them run through the night to get to the North. -
Frederick Douglass
[Douglass](www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html) Douglass self educated himself and fought quietly to be free. Once he was free, he spoke out for the experiences that happened to slaves and things that he saw when he was a slave to make people aware that slaves needed to be free and treated equally. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom’s cabin is about two slave families escaping their masters and trying to run to Canada to get freedom. They believed strongly in religion and felt the right thing to do was run and try to start a new life for their children. -
John Brown
[John Brown](www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html ) John Brown took his two sons and 19 other men and captured the arsenal at Harpers Ferry and decided to take by force slaves that owners would not release. He thought he was being told by God to kill slave owners to free slaves and make right the freedom that they deserved. -
1863 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
[Emancipation Proclamation](www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html ) Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect by Abraham Lincoln allowing all slaves to go to army bases where the Union soldiers would take them in and they would become free men. All slaves were encouraged to leave their masters to be free and masters were bound by the law of the Emancipation Proclamation to set their slaves free, even though this did not happen. -
1865 Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment
13th Amendment The 13th Amendment signed into law that no man could own another man unless that man was voluntarily serving with some type of arrangement or promise. The servant might be getting land or money for his service. The 13th Amendment made it illegal to own slaves. -
1881 Jim Crow laws are passed in Tennessee.
[Jim Crow Laws](www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm ) Jim Crow laws were passed as a way to keep Negro and White businesses separate as needs were different for different cultures. It was put into law to keep peace, but many states got carried away and started to separate whites from blacks in every aspect of life. Bathrooms, restaurants, drinking fountains, schools, and even riding the bus because separate for whites and blacks. -
1920’s-1930’s The Harlem Renaissance takes place.
[Harlem Renaissance](www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html) The Harlem Renaissance was a coming of age for African Americans. In the 3 mile area of New York, African Americans were able to live, work, and express themselves by writing, playing music like jazz and the blues, and able to grow as a culture. It was like a new birth for culture to grow and become what it is today for African Americans. Roots were able to established. -
Langston Huges
[Langston Hughes](www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83 ) Hughes wrote about the black experience overall. His writing was about blacks, for blacks, and did not include much of any white role in their culture. His goal was to share with African Americans their culture not the influence of the white man. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
[Bus Boycott](www.montgomeryboycott.com) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus. This sparked all black persons not give up their seats on city buses to white persons and eventually blacks decided to stop riding city buses and giving their money to the city to ride the bus. Instead they rode in black taxis or got rides from friends from church. This cut the money the busses were making and they had to cut down their bus routes. Big cities lost mo -
Thurgood Marshall
[Thurgood Marshall](www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1668.html) Marshall fought for the right to go to law school and graduated from Howard University. He then went on to fight many civil rights cases and became a part of the NAACP. After winning a case in the U.S. Supreme Court, he decided to travel and fight segregation in the armies over in Korea and Japan. He fought for equality in schools as well. He was then elected into the Court of Appeals as a judge. -
1965 Voting Rights Act passed.
[Voting Rights](www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 ) President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the right for all African Americans to be able to vote, even in the South where they were more restricted. The original law was signed in 95 year prior, but was not enforced. Now African Americans had the right to vote for things in their communities and for the President of the United States.
