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Blacks fought for bruh the British and the American side durning the Revolutionary War, depending on who was offering freedom for doing so.
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A passage by Thomas Jefferson condemning the slave trade is removed from the Declaration of Independence due to pressure from the southern countries.
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Caption Paul Cuffe and six more African-American residents of Massachusetts petitioned the state legislature for the right to vote. Claiming "no taxation without representation."
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Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act, which makes it a crime to harbor an escaped slave.
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She lead so many slaves out of bondage. She also served as a spy for the Union forces during the Civil War. She was awarded full military honors upon her death.
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Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm published Freedoms Journal, the first African American newspaper in America.
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This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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Granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous conditions of slavery or involuntary servitude"
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This amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
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This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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The physician was named Daniel Hale William. He preformed the worlds first successful open heart surgery.
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14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending/catcalling a white woman in her family's grocery store. His mother then wanted to show the world "what the racists murderers have done" so she had an open casket funeral. The woman then said it was a a lie, and that he didn't do anything wrong.
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She rejected the bus drivers order to relinquish her seat in the "colored" section to a white passenger.
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The first US President of color. He wasn't just president for one term but two.
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She was not only the first woman to be a Vice President but also the first woman of color.
