From slavery to freedom

By jeannechgn

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

  • the battle of Fort Pillow

    massacre of surrendered African-American troops

  • abolition of slavery

    slavery is abolished after the war ends

  • the 13th admendment to the united states

    the united states congress passes the thirteen admendment to the united states constitution

  • the Klu Klux Klan is formed

    it becomes a paramilitary insurgent group to enforce white supremacy

  • the fifteenth Amendment to the united states constitution

    guarantees the right of male citizens of the US to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

  • US civil rights passed

  • civil rights act of 1875 signed

  • the national association of colored women is formed

  • coup d'état in Wilmington

    resulting in considerable loss of life and property in the Afrcan American community
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    the great migration

    one and a half million African Americans move from the southern United States to the north and Midwest
  • Period: to

    second great migration

    more than 5 millions Africans Americans leave the violence and segregation of the south
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    the civil rights movement

  • the universal declaration of human rights bans slavery globally

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • rosa parks refuse to give her seat on a bus

  • Martin luther king is sentenced to jail for instigating Montgomery bus boycott

  • Ruby bridges becomes the first African American child to attend an all white school

  • Kennedy makes his civil rights address

  • Malcolm X delivers "message to the grass roots" speech

  • president kennedy is assassinated

  • organisation of afro american unity is founted by Malcolm X

  • Martin luther king is awared the nobel price

  • malcolm X is assassinated in manhattan

  • assassination of Martin Luther king in memphis

  • Barack obama becomes the first African American president of the united states

  • Barack obama is awared the nobel peace price

  • shooting of michael brown by a police officer

  • Murder of George Floyd

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    Black lives matter