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Jan 1, 1472
The First Slave Trade
Portuguese negotiated the first slave trade agreement that included some gold and some ivory. When the end of the 19th Century came, because of the slave trade agreement, five times the amount of Africans came (over 11 million) were sold to Americas than Europeans. -
Born into Slavery
A Virginia court decides that a child who has a enslaved mother is also a slave to the owner -
Sojouner Truth
Sojourner Truth, a speaker for abolitionism,she gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech in Akron, Ohio. -
Leo Frank
Leo Frank was accused of murder and lynched in Marietta, Georgia. -
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry By Mildred D. Taylor
This book takes place in late 1934 to early 1935, in the south of the USA. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas the Supreme Court made a rule against school segregation, overuling its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. -
The government Tried to Retained the African American
For the first time since The Great Reconstruction, the federal government used the military to give the African Americans' civil rights, as soldiers lead nine African students to non-segregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Daisy Bates, was an NAACP leader, advised and helped the students so eventually they had a state holiday dedicated to just her. -
Motown Records
Motown Records is in Detroit, Mich. Motown will go on to feature legendary artists like Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight, Lionel Ritchie and Queen Latifah. -
One Great Basketball Player
Wilt Chamberlain(a basketball player) scores 100 points in one single NBA game, setting a huge record that still stands today! -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)CORE and the NAACP and other civil-rights groups organized a massive African American voter registration drive in Mississippi known as the "Freedom Summer." Three CORE civil rights workers were murdered. In the five years following Freedom Summer, black voter registration in Mississippi will rose from a mere 7 percent to 67 percent. -
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin made a number of #1 hits including her most-known song called, "Respect." She is known as the "Queen of Soul." -
Mark Sinclair Vincent
Mark Sinclair Vincent was Born on
July 18, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA! -
My Niece was born
I was in kindergarten,and on my way to school when my mom turned around and to me to the hospital she told me that my sister was having her baby.Then i got a new addition of the family a beautiful baby girl named Nyla. I was happy at first,now im not so happy beause she won't leave me alone.
