Discrimination timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic

    English colonists and other allies set fire to a Pequot village near the Mystic River, killing hundreds of men, women, and children.
  • Nat turner rebellion

    Nat turner rebellion

    uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    Stated anyone who was African descent free or not could not vote or sue.
  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

    Executive issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared that enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states were free.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    Abolished slavery throughout the United States