Social Justice & Photography

By AMcGreevy
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    Social Justice & Photography

  • Commercial tobacco raised in Jamestown, VA

  • Twenty Africans transported to Jamestown - enslaved peoples work in colonies

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act gives government the right to keep Freedom Seekers enslaved

  • View from the Window at La Gras

    Niepce creates the earliest surviving image

  • William Henry Fox Talbot invents paper negative process

  • Release of the Daguerreotype process

  • Samual Morse brings Daguerreotype to US

  • First use of Photographic Advertisements

  • California Gold Rush

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Crimean War

    First conflict capture with the use of photography

  • Dred Scott vs Sandford

    Supreme Court upholds that American Citizenship did not include Black people

  • James Brown raid at Harper's Ferry

  • Lincoln becomes President

    Start of the Civil War

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes patents the Stereoscope

  • End of the Civil War - Abolition of Slavery

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

  • Thomas Edison invents electric lights

  • Kodak roll-film camera is released by George Eastman

  • Eiffel Tower is built in Paris

  • Lumiere Brothers develop Motion Picture

  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow Laws

  • Kodak releases the Brownie camera for public sale

  • First 35mm Camera is developed

  • Franz Ferdinand and wife are assassinated

    Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated triggering the start of WWI

  • German attacks US Merchant Ship

    US joins WWI

  • Germany signs peace agreement

    Ending WWI

  • Red Summer

    Over 70 Black Americans are lynched

  • US Stock Market crashes triggering the Great Depression

  • Star Spangled Banner adopted as US national anthem

  • Kodak releases Kodachrome

    First successful mass production of color film

  • Germany invades Poland triggering WWII

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    US enters WWII

  • Japanese Surrender

    Ending WWII

  • President Truman uses executive order to desegregate the Armed Forces

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Desegregation of schools

  • 14 year old Emmett Till is murdered

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat prompting Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Protecting voting rights for women and Black folks

  • The Greensboro Sit-in

    Sit-in at Woolsworth's "whites only" lunch counter

  • Ruby Bridges escorted into William Frantz Elementary School

  • Freedom Riders take to busses through American South and are met with violence

  • Polaroid Instant Color Film released

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

    Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech

  • Linden B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Preventing employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, and national orientation.

  • Malcolm X is assassinated

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

  • Last known Lynching

    Michael Donald
    Mobile, Alabama

  • Canon demonstrates first digital still camera