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Crispus Attucks a fugitive slave was the first to die in the Boston Massacre.
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Captured African Americans, revolt slave ship.
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Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, only punishment for crimes.
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All blacks were considered citizens.
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No matter what race, color, or servitude you could vote.
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A massacre was carried out in the small, predominately black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community.
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During the time of the depression nine black youth were jailed because of a false accusation of a gang rape. They didn't commit the crime but the verdict was guilty and the boys did unearned time.
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George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma because of his color. He filed a suit and the supreme court ruled that George must be admitted into the school.
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The Brown vs Board decision was supposed to have ended legal segregation in public schools.
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The Emmett Till murder trial brought to light the brutality of Jim Crow segregation in the South and was an early impetus of the African American civil rights movement.
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The Little Rock 9 were nine students attempting to intergrate an all white school at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Was the first African-American girl to attend an all white public school in the south
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The town of Oxford erupted. It took some 30,000 U.S. troops, federal marshals and national guardsmen to get James Meredith to class after a violent campus uprising. Two people were killed and more than 300 injured.
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More than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation’s capital.
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The brutal bombing of a church that killed four young girls. This event helped and encouraged the Cilvil Rights movement.
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Malcolm X was shot 15 times at close range in the Audubon Ballroom.
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans were marching for their rights.
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South Carolina highway patrolmen opened fire on a college campus killing 3 and wounding 27. Students were unarmed and had no warnings due to racial tensions.
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Martin was shot on the second floor of the Lorraine hotel in Memphis.
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Radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin County, California.
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Lucy was one of the most famous early forms of human ancestry. She was the first Australopithecus ever found,and only 40% of her body was found.
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He was elected the 44th President of the United States .
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Inflamed cities where racial tensions were high. The beating of Rodney King was videotaped and seen nationally, as he was beat by five police officers.
