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The first slaves in America
20 Captive Africans are sold in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The first in America. -
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Civil Rights through the years.
Civil rights from Slavery to jim crow to the march on Washington. -
The first slave ship is manufactured.
The ship Desire is the first ever ship for slave transportation. -
John Punch the runaway.
John Punch is a runaway service and is forced to work for his master for life. He is the first for life slave. -
Slavery Legalization.
Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery. -
Hereditary slave
Virginia passes the hereditary slave law. Babies born of slavery are made slaves at birth. -
Bacons Rebellion
Slaves and angry servicemen join the bacon’s rebellion. -
More crops, more slaves
With Cultivation in Carolina increasing, Slave sales increase as well. -
People are property
The Virginia slave code declares slaves a property, restrict them from bearing arms and acquit white people who harm blacks. -
The first of many
Slave revolt resorts in the deaths of 9 whites -
Florida slaves
Slave fleeing to Florida won’t be sent back. -
First church
The first black church is erected in South Carolina -
Declaration of independence
Declaration of Independence gives freedom to americans but not slaves. -
3/5
The 3/5th of a person clause is enacted for slaves. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri compromise evens the number of free and slave states. -
Nat Turner
Nat Turner enacts an infamous slave revolution in Southampton, killing 57 whites. -
Dred Scott
Dred scott case takes place. Scott is denied and rights to slave current or former are denied rights. -
Southern Secession
Americas souther states secede. -
Slight abolishment
Congress abolishes slavery in the then new states of Washington and the new territories. -
Emancipation Porclamation
The Emancipation Proclamtion declares all slaves free. The southern states refuse to let them go. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery altogether. -
The first of many
The first ever Black representatives are introduced to the Massachusetts Legislature. -
The KKK
Ku Kluk Klan is founded. An infamous Black hate group. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment finally provides equal rights for black and white “men”. -
Tennesse redeems
Tennessee is the first state to begin the Redeemer governments to keep blacks from getting the rights they deserve. -
Black Census
Blacks are listed by name in the U.S. census for the first time ever. -
Segregation for the Win
Virginia passes a law that allows the segregation of white and black children in schools. -
KKK Act
The KKK act enacts allows the government to punish anti civil rights establishments and groups. -
Civil Rights act 1875
The civil rights act of 1875 makes it so that public discrimination of blacks is prohibited in public areas. -
Exodus(1879)
The Exodus of 1879 occurred where thousands of poverty stricken blacks emigrated to the west to leave the discrimination and poverty of south. -
Lynching begins
From 1882 to 1951, 3,438 blacks were lynched in public. -
Civil Rights case of 1883
The government finds the civil rights act of 75 from the Civil Rights case of 1883, is restrictive to citizens. States are prohibited from discrimination but citizens aren’t. -
Colored only Voting
A trend of new laws are passed in southern states to restrict blacks from voting and being involved in the constitution. 1890-1908 -
Jim Crow
The beginning of Jim Crow laws segregate Blacks from things like school, parks and restaurants. -
The Birth of a Nation(1915)
The movie, “Birth of a Nation”” glorifies the KKK, leading to its resurgence. As well as pushing many infamous black stereotypes. -
The Red Summer
The “Red Summer” occurs where anti equality white people attacked and rioted against blacks across the country. -
19th Amendment
Woman of all races are given the right to vote. -
3 million KKK
The KKK had reached 3 million members, 35,000 of which marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in DC on August 8th. -
Oscar Depreist
Oscar DePreist is the first African American elected in congress. -
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens is the first American to win four Gold medals in an olympic event. This discredits Hitler's idea of Aryan supremacy. -
Core
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is founded. -
The Executive Order 9981
The Executive Order 9981 is signed by President Truman, which abolished segregation in the armed services. -
Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregation was ruled by the supreme court unconstitutional by cases like Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson -
Rosa Parks/Emit Till/NAACP
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger. -
SCLC/Montomgery 9/
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth founded the SCLC, which later becomes an organized force for civil rights.
In september, 9 black students are block from a school in Little Rock Alabama by the Governor, where Pres. Eisenhower sends in federal troops and the national guard to help the students. -
Sit-Downs Begin
Four black students begin a sit in at a woolworth's counter that eventually leads to several non-violent -
SNCC
The SNCC is founded at Shaw University for students that wanted a part in the civil rights movement. -
Beginning Of The Year Norht Students
Throughout the beginning of the year student volunteers from the north take trips to the south to test out the new segregation laws and are attacked. -
James Meredith
James Meredith is the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, when riots and mobs break out president Kennedy sends 5,000 troops. -
Letter to Birmingham Jail
MLKJ is arrested and placed in Birmingham jail, where he write “Letter To Birmingham Jail” -
Protests
Civil Right protests where black protestors are attacked by police dogs and fire horses, which images of the brutality were shown on television the movement gained sympathy from people all over the US. -
I have a Dream speech
Thousands of people follow MLKJ on The March on Washington, where he delivers the “I Have A Dream” speech. -
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins
Four girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, are killed when a bomb goes off in 16th street Baptist Church, a popular place for civil rights protest meetings. -
24th Amendment
The 24th amendment is passed that abolished the poll tax, but still made it hard for blacks who didn’t have the money to pay to vote.
Summer. Organizations in Mississippi began to protest to unseat an all-white contingent this was known as the Democratic National Convention. -
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Freedom Summer
Organizations in Mississippi began to protest to unseat an all-white contingent this was known as the Democratic National Convention. -
3 killed by the KKK
Three bodies of civil rights workers are found after they had been arrested and released into the KKK who beat and murdered them. These three men are; James E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman, 21; and Michael Schwerner, 24. -
Malcom X assassinated
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Bloody Sunday
This day is known as “Bloody Sunday” after police brutalized marchers who marched into Montgomery and were stopped by a police blockade. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Aug 11-17. Riots break out in California. -
Black Panthers Founded
The militant The Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. -
Rioting
Major race riots break out in Newark and Detroit. -
MLK Jr. was shot to death by James Earl Ray.
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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Civil Rights Restoration Act
This describes whats against the law for discrimination -
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Outlaws discrimination in workplaces -
Race Riots begin
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Affirmative Action
Supreme Court upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy -
Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen is convicted of murder -
Rosa Parks' death
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Emit Till
Emit Tills case is closed J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, the murders of Emit Till, died of cancer -
Senator Edward Kennedy
Civil Rights Act of 2008 is introduced that held employers against discrimination -
Ricci v. DeStefano
This case had brought up several Lt. and Captian exams from 2003 against people of color. -
Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court struck down Voting Rights Act, Sect. 4. That this has to have prior approval before changing the voting kaw
