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Crispus Attucks, an African American was the first victim of the Boston Massacare.
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Fugitive Slave Law forced Northern law enforcement officers to aid in the recapture of runaways
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Nat turner and a group of slaves raided homes and killed families and gathered more slaves to try and earn their freedom.
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Slaves on the ship the Amistad revolted, to try and secure their freedom from the slavers.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was a federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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the 15th amendment gave black males the right to vote.
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The case that stated that slaves were not U.S. citizens and could not recieve protection from the Federal Government or the courts
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John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South.
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South Carolina unanimously made the decision to eliminate their connection with the United States
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The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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The Civil War ended Jun 2, 1865 after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. The North and the South had battled for many years, in what became the bloodiest war.
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The fourteenth Amendment adopted citizenship and equal protection for all.
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Was a court case involving homer plessy and the ruling was that separate but equal accomodations for whites and blacks.
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Violence erupted after a well respected man Mr. Etheridge was shot after he attempted to take poll boxes out of the hands of the Tolbert family, who were taking the boxes to convenient locations for black people.
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On Thursday, November 10, 1898, Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell, a mustered a white mob to retaliate for a controversial editorial written by Alexander Manly, editor of the city's black newspaper,
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A massacre was started in Rosewood, Florida after a rumor that a white woman by the name of Fanny Taylor was sexually assaulted by a black man was started.
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Nine black kids were falsely charged with the gang rape of two white girls on a freight train.
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The court case that ruled treating african americans differently was a violation of the fourteenth amendment, after George Mc Laurin was denied access to the University of Oklahoma's Doctoral Education Program
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Was the court case where it was ruled that Sweatt had the right to equal education opportunity.
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Was the court case that ruled that separate but equal is not equal.
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A fourteen year old boy by the name of Emmett Till, was killed after he suposedly make lewd remarks to a white woman who worked at a store in Money, Mississippi.
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Nine black students tried to integrate Little Rock Central High School but were turned away after the govenor sent national guard to turn them away.
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Was the first black girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School
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James Meredith became the first black student to enter the University of Mississippi
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The march on Washington took place as protest for black freedom and jobs. It was attended by 250,000 people
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A church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed as an act of white supremacist terrorism
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Malcolm X was assassinated by black Muslims in New York,NY
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600 people marched out from selma in protest of civil rights for African Americans.
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police officers beat Rodney King after they ran him down in a high speed car chase
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outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including passing literacy tests to voting.
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A struggle occured after police pulled over Marquette Frye, his brother Ronald, and their mother and crowds gathered. After police left a riot broke out for 6 days which killed 34 people.
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Highway patrolmen open fire on a group of people protesting which led to the death of 3 and wounding 27 others
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Martin Luther King jr, was assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
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Angela was arrested after an abortive attempt to free George Jackson.
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A study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks.
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Lucy was discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia.
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Alex Hayley published "Roots" which was a history of his family stemming back from the times of early slavery.
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Barack Obama was elected in 2009 as the first black president.
