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Allowed Maine to join legislation as a free state, but Missouri entered as a slave state
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introduced by Democratic representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, attempts to ban slavery in territory gained in the Mexican War. The proviso is blocked by Southerners, but continues to enflame the debate over slavery
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becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad.
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-admitted California as a free state
-stricter fugitive slave laws
-Texas renounced claims of New Mexico
-no slavery in D.C.
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novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It becomes one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery sentiments.
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Allowed people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide slave or free state by popular sovereignty
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Dred Scott sues US for freedom
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11 southern states seceding from the union and forming the confederate states of america
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When Lincoln ended slavery
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the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote.
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When 150 black men where massacred by whites
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Controversial court case where Louisiana mob killed African Americans and ruled that the state couldn’t protect from actions of citizens only acts of the state.
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And act to keep whites and blacks seperate but make sure they all have the same rights as each other
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founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. Du Bois. For the next half century, it would serve as the country's most influential African-American civil rights organization,
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Hundreds of deaths due to race riots.
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KKK membership sky rockets and is revived in a sense.
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The spark of an African american renaissance that took place in Harlem NY
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Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women. Although the evidence was slim, the southern jury sentenced them to death. finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottsboro boys are freed; but five are sentenced to long prison terms.
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The time period where African americans were allowed to fight for our country. During WWI they were not allowed to fight in the wars
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The first African american baseball player to play in the Major League Baseball association. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
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declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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After rosa parks was arrested all African americans started a boycott to not take the buses to show whites a lesson.
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14 year old boy made flirtatious remark towards white women which was against Jim Crow laws. Three days later two white men kidnapped Emmett and beat him and shot him to death then later discarding the body
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jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience.
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assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. April 4
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
