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Emancipation Proclamation
This act enabled that everyone that was declared a slave would be let free -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
This new bill gave "all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theatres, public schools, churches, and cemeteries", that everyone had a jury service, and provided that all lawsuits will be tried in federal, not state, courts. -
The Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement was a movement of African-American people like W. E. B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter who did this movement to obtaining civil rights for African-Americans -
Formation of NAACP
With lack of funding from the Niagara movement people went over to America's oldest and largest civil rights organization NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) where it one many legal victories in the 1950s and 1960s and now has more than 2,200 branches with some having half a million members worldwide -
First Negro History Week
In 1915 historian and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History External (ASALH)) where later Woodson initiated the first Negro History Week in February 1926 since it included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass -
NAACP fought discrimination in education and interstate transportation
In 1934 the Joint Committee of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service had Houston fight a legal campaign against discrimination in education and interstate transportation -
Executive Order 9981
Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which says, "that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." -
Baton Rouge bus boycott
After a four-day strike by white bus drivers that had segregated seating on buses in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, several local Black leaders formed the United Defense League (UDL) to protest this and when the UDL urged Black residents to avoid taking the buses within a few days thousands of Black residents had boycotted buses -
Browder v. Gayle
The federal district court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional with the Supreme Court agreeing in November 1956 getting rid of laws segregated seating on public buses. -
Civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave prosecutors the right to vote for United States citizens -
Birmingham Campaign
“In the spring of 1963, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., launched a large-scale campaign of sit-ins and marches in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest the city’s brutal segregation policies.” -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
“The act outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity.” -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
“The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibited racial discrimination in voting” -
MLK Shot
“At 6:05 p.m. the following day, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he and his associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39.” -
First Black American Governor Of A U.S. State
“Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African-American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era and the first elected African-American governor.” -
First Black American Woman Nominated To Serve As National Security Advisor
"Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor” -
First Black President Elected As The 44th U.S. President
“A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States” -
BLM Movement
“The hashtag first appeared in July 2013, after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida. Its use peaked at over 1.2 million tweets per day after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in May 2020.” -
George Floyd Incident
“Mr. Floyd’s death spurred nationwide protests against police brutality and a reckoning over everything from public monuments to sports team names.” -
First Female Vice President
Kamala Harris is the United States’ first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first Black American and first Asian American vice president.