Racial Issues in US

  • 2013 BCE

    Black lives matter

    Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., by Darren Wilson
  • 1964 BCE

    KKK

    Black people were being murdered by white people from the South
  • 1954 BCE

    civil rights movement

    Civil rights movement was a group, social movement in the US who want to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
  • 1619 BCE

    Slavery

    the first Africans slaves where brought to Jamestown by the Dutch. The Dutch seized them from Spanish
  • boycott

    boycott started when a black women refuse to follow the bus rules. Black were to seat at the back of the bus but she didn't so she was put in jail.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    He was a strong leader for black communities. Then he was assassinated in Memphis.
  • Presidency

    Obama becomes the first black to be elected for president