Black History

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  • First 20 African Slaves

    A year before the Mayflower, the first 20 African slaves are sold to settlers in Virginia as "indentured servants."

  • Law

    Pennsylvania amends law to forbid removal of blacks from the state.

  • Civil War

    The Civil War begins.

  • Black History

    In Brazil and Peru.

  • Rosa Parks

    Parks refused to obey the bus driver order to give up her seat.

  • "I have a dream"

    More than 250,000 people join in the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listened as Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King died on April 4, 1968.

  • Obama

    Barack Obama became the first black president in 2008.

  • March

    Blacks began a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights, but were stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge by a police blockade in Selma, Ala.