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Harriet Tubman Was a slave from the time she was born tell the day she made a run for it. She was born in 1819 in Dorchester County, Maryland she was given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery. She helped many people escape from slavery.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. Involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories.
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http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/It was known as the war between states. United States after several Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States.The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment 15) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization
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Emmett Till Murder was a boy who lived in chicago.was visiting his relatives in Mississippi when he was snatched from his great-uncle's home on the night of August 28
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A chronology of black history from the early slave trade through Affirmative Action.This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slave
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Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were recruited by Daisy Bates
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King had been preaching about dreams since 1960. this is a part from his speech I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstratio.
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He was killed at 6:01 pm he was standing on the balcony of his room at the loraine motel in memphis tennesse. He was born january 1925 in atlanta GA. His spouse was Coretta scot King. His awards were the Nobel Peace Prize, Time's Person of the Year
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Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919.His Education was John Muir High School, Pasadena Junior College, University of California, Los Angeles. His place of birth was Cairo, Georgia and his place of death was Stanford, Conneticuit. His originial name was Jack Rosevelt Robinson. Jackie Robinson was the first afraican american to play major league baseball, he became rookie of the year in 1947 he was nationial league mvp in 1949 and a World series champ in 1955.
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