From slavery to freedom

By Sparano Eliott

  • 1863 Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln abolished the slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution.

  • 1868 Fourteenth Amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the USA.

  • 1870 Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted the right to vote to any US citizen.

  • 1909 NAACP

    Foundation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • 1948 Executive order 9981

    Executive Order 9981 was issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. This order abolished all form of discrimination into the United States Armed Forces.

  • 1955 Rosa Park

    Rosa Park, on the first december of 1955, refused to let her seat to a white man in the bus.

  • 1963 MLK

    Martin Luther King's speech : I have a dream.
    His famous speech defended civil rights of Americans, particularly for the Afro-American people.

  • 1964 Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act ended all forms of discrimination based on color, sex, religion and origins.

  • 1966 Robert C. Weaver

    Robert C. Weaver was the first Afro-American to be part of a presidential cabinet.

  • 1967 Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall was the first Afro-American named to the Supreme Court of the United States.

  • 2008 Barack Obama

    Election of the first Afro-American President : Barack Obama.

  • 2013 BLM

    Black Lives Matter's foundation (BLM)

  • 2020 Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris became the first Afro-American and Asian-American woman to be elected as Vice-President of the USA.