Civil rights

  • black in congress

    a black man entered congress and help freed slaves in Philadelphia and got there rights
  • No longer

    the parlemetary goverment made it illegal for the british to attend the African slave trade
  • revolt

    Nathan Turner lead a revolt in virgina to free slaves and get there rights
  • freedom

    the 13th Amendment aloud every black man women and childern to be free in all states
  • Madness

    congress declared that 373 free slave where killed by white people
  • votes for blacks

    15th Amendment granted all africans to vote even former slaves
  • the bus

    Mrs.Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on the bus for a white man and was put in jail and then a boycott started because they where tired of being treated on a bus
  • 1958

    African American ballet dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey founds the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater world renowned.