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20 indentured servants are brought to Jamestown Virginia by ship.
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1st American and African American killed in the Revolutionary War.
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Slaves are counted as three-fifths of a person.
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Scott made a case that he was legally free after being removed to free soil. The case went to Supreme Court and he was considered not to be a citizen because he was a slave, so he was not able to sue.
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The Clotilde was the last slave ship to arrive in America. It was brought in secrecy due to this being a violation to the international slave trade ban.
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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
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It granted citizenship and all the same rights that white people possessed in the United States to all males in the US without caring about race, color, and previous condition of slavery.
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The amendment extended rights granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves.
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It granted the African American men the right to vote.
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Tennessee passed the first "Jim Crow" segregation law which segregated state railroads. Other southern states passed similar laws eventually.
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This ruling by the Supreme Court lead to the term "separate but equal" to exist between white and colored races.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established to ensure equality of rights for all persons and stop racial discrimination.
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Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools based on race is unconstitutional. This ended racial segregation for school in the US. It stopped "separate but equal".
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Prohibited discrimination in public places and made employment discrimination illegal.
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A 46 year old man was wrongfully attacked by the police which lead to his death. Huge protests sparked and eventually those men were charged.
