History of African Americans in the US up to 1954

By mv.dias

  • Declaration of Independence

    13 colonies declared their independence

  • African American remained as slaves

  • Constitution

    Rules and regulations for the government of the US were set there

  • Thirteen states come together to fight for their freedom

  • The Republican Party

  • Confederacy

    The fighting broke out, after A. Lincoln was elected president. Eleven slave-owning southern states saceded, or broke away, to form it

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. (slavery abolition)

  • American Civil War

  • Elections

  • 14th Amendment

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Citizens Rights)

  • 15th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (Right to vote not denied by race)

  • A number of black men gained political power

  • Southern states ratified the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and had been readmitted to the Union

  • The period of Recontruction ended

  • Jim Crow Laws

  • Poll Tax

    Mississippi introduced it for those wishing to register to vote

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Only three percent of black people were able to vote in much of the South