Timeline: Stuff

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to May 10, 1869

Transcontinental railroad

Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Jan 1, 1911

Standard Oil

Feb 12, 1909

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This group was created to address the concerns of the challenges facing African Americans. Mostly pertaining to the 1908 Sprngfeild Race Riot.

Aug 18, 1920

Women were allowed to vote

The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote. This was known as women´s suffrage.

Jan 1, 1942

Rosie the Riveter

Period: Feb 1, 1960 to Jul 28, 1960

Greensboro Sit-in

Greensboro four

Aug 28, 1963

The March on Washington

Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital.

Dec 19, 1963

AAGPBL

All the men went to war and they wanted to keep Baseball alive. So they created the All American Girls Professional Baseball League

Mar 7, 1965

Selma

Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma where local African Americans met him to aid in the protest.