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American Civil War
The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. The war started because of the issue of slavery. After 4 bloody years of fighting, over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were dead and most of the South's infastructure had been destroyed. But, slavery was abolished. -
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Emancipation Day
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. This was the act that freed slaves -
Emancipation Day: District of Columbia compensated Emancipation Act
The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in Washington, D.C. by paying slave owners for releasing their slaves. Although not written by him,[the act was signed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 16, 1862. April 16 is now celebrated in the city as Emancipation Day. -
Civil Rights Act of 1871 Passed
This was also known as the Klan act and Third enforcement act.The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. -
State Normal School For Colored People Founded
Florida A&M University (FAMU) was founded on October 3, 1887, as the State Normal College for Colored Students. It was called the State Normal school for Colored students and kept whites and colored people seperate. It is now Florida A&M University and is open to all races. -
Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, often under the guise of rape charges. In 1892 she published "Southern horrors: Lynch law in all it's phases." -
Plessy vs Ferguson
A Louisiana statute required railroad companies to provide separate, but equal accommodations for its Black and White passengers. An exception was made for nurses attending to the children of the other race. Plaintiff, who was seven-eighths white, was prosecuted under the statute after he refused to leave the section of a train reserved for whites. The alleged purpose of the statute was to preserve public peace and good order and to promote the comfort of the people. -
Orlando Florida hires first black postman
Orlando Florida hired the first Black mailman of many other than the mailmen that had already been hired in Canada a few years back. -
The Great Migration
1.5 million African Americans moved from the Southern Us to the North and Midwest.ccording to Nicholas Lemann, the Great Migration was one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements in history -- perhaps the greatest not caused by the immediate threat of execution or starvation. In sheer numbers it outranks the migration of any other ethnic group -- Italians or Irish or Jews or Poles -- to [the U.S.]. For blacks, the migration meant leaving what had always been their economic and so -
35,000 kuk lux klan members march on Washington D.C
In this photograph, forty thousand members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue on August 8, 1925. Organized to counter reports of faltering enrollment, this “konklave“ succeeded in attracting national attention but marked the peak of Klan power in the 1920s. -
Great Depression Starts
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Great Depression over
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Chambers vs Florida
The defendant Chambers, along with three other co-defendants, were four of up to forty transient black men arrested for the murder of Robert Darcy, an elderly local man, in Pompano Beach, Florida. The murder was greeted with outrage in the community and the Broward County Sheriff's department was apparently under pressure to close the case. Chambers and the other defendants were taken to Miami for questioning, ostensibly to protect them from the mob that had formed, and then to Fort Lauderdale. -
Gov. of Georgia criticizes television show for depicting blacks and whites as equals
The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the constitutional amendments adopted after the Civil War. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. The governer was upset because it showed the two races being friendly t -
Civil Rights Act
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Voting Rights
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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley becomes the first mayor - party African American candidate for president and the first woman to run for the democratic presidential nomination. -
Charles Filter writes a soldier's play
The story takes place at United States Army's Fort Neal, Louisiana in 1944 during the time when the military was racially segregated. In the opening scene, the audience witnesses the murder of black Sergeant Vernon Waters by an unseen shooter. Just before his death, Waters utters the enigmatic cry, "They still hate you!" It is a play about how some whites treated blacks and about the racial segregation. -
Micheal Jackson releases "Thriller"
When Micheal Jackson ( a very popular African American pop singer) came out with his hit album "Thriller" , it topped the charts and became the best album of all time. This was a surprise for most people because he was black, but he became one of the most world reknown singers ever during his career.
