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The Alabama Timeline

By ofeliz
  • The first people in Alabama
    Jan 1, 1540

    The first people in Alabama

    Hernanndo de Soto leads an expedition into todays Alabama.
  • Starting a New Life

    Starting a New Life

    The Le Moyne brothers Pierre and Jean enter Mobile Bay.
  • Alabama Statehood

    Alabama Statehood

    Alabama becomes a state.
  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal

    Indian Removal Act forces Native Americans to go and live west.
  • Seceding

    Seceding

    Alabama secedes from th Union in the Civil War
  • Period: to

    A Big Loss

    The Great Depression leaves many Alabamians jobless and homeless.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man
  • The Mirgration

    The Mirgration

    The Mirgration iswhen the African Americans move from the soouth to the north.
  • The Church Bombing

    The Church Bombing

    The Birmingham curch bombing kills 4 little grils stuns black and white Americans.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.'s march

    Martin Luther King Jr.'s march

    Martin Luther King Jr. leads a 25,000 person civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina damages coastal Alabama.