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Crispus Attucks dies in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks, one of the first men to die for American Revolution, was a fugitive slave who had escaped from his master and had worked for twenty years as a merchant seaman. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Runaway slaves caught had to go to court. Judges were paid $10 if slaves were convicted, and $5 if set free. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Slave Rebellion killing every white slave owner and their entire family they came to. -
Amistad Revolt
Fifty-two Africans took over La Amistad, a ship embarking from Havana on a journey to bring valuables and slaves to trade, killing the captain, cook, and three of the crew members. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Stated runaway slaves had to e returned to their masters and all states had to abide by it. -
Scott vs. Sanford
This case determines that slaves are not citizens and therefore cannot use federal courts. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown staged an armed slave revolt at a military arsenal in Virginia -
SC Secedes from the Union
First state to secede and start the confederacy. First shots of war were fired in Charleston. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It stated slaves were free in confederate states, even though Lincoln didn have technical power over confederacy. -
Assassination of Lincoln
John Wiles Booth shot and killed Lincoln at the Ford Theatre -
End of Civil War
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia resulting in the end of the Civil War. -
13th amendment
Abolished Slavery in United States -
14th amendment
Granted citizenship to anyone born in the Unitied States -
15th Amendment
Granted black men the right to vote -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Stated that seperate facilities that offered the same oppurtunities were equal. "serperate but equal" -
Phoenix, SC riot
Riot by white South Carolinians in the name of Redemption in Greenwood, South Carolina. Over a dozen black leaders were murdered and hundreds were injured by the white mob. -
Wilmington, NC riot
Took place after the democratic party achieved victory in the election of 1898,giving them control of the majority of legislature. -
Rosewood Massacre
A series of lynchings and murders accured by mobs of racist whites on a town of african americans because of a false claim of rape made by a white woman that was cheating on her husband. -
Scottsboro Boys
A group a black teenagers had a fight with some white boys on a train and were arrested and then were falsely accused of raping two girls and convicted based on no evidence. -
Mc Laurin vs Oklahoma
Important case helping decied the decision on Brown vs. Board, it showed that McLaurin was seperate and not being treated equal. -
Sweatt vs Painter
Sweatt applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law and was sent to a seperate unequal black school, was eventually granted admission to recieve eqaul education. -
Brown vs Board (day of SC decision)
Case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Death of Emmett Till
14 year old boy Killed for flirting with a white woman -
Little Rock 9
A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Ruby Bridges
Bridges was one of six black children in New Orleans to pass the test that determined whether or not they could go to the all-white school. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. -
James Meredith
Intergrated the University of Mississippi -
March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. MLK delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech here. -
16th St. Church Bombing
In Birmingham, Alabama was bombed as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist, and advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. -
March on Selma
Estimated 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC,The protest went according to plan until the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where they found a wall of state troopers waiting for them on the other side. -
Voting Rights Act
Stopped discrimination at voting polls, enforced 14th and 15th amendments. -
Watts Riots
Riot that took place in Los Angeles resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. -
Orangeburg Massacre
Shooting of protestors by South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers that were demonstrating against racial segregation at a local bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina near South Carolina State University. -
Assassination of MLK, Jr.
American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. -
Arrest of Angela Davis
On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, a heavily armed 17-year-old African-American high-school student, gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California. Davis had purchased the firearms used in the attack. -
Congressional Hearings end for Tuskegee Study
40 year study to see how many men had Syphilis, out of 600 men, 399 men tested positive. -
LUCY is discovered
Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on the November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. "Lucy" was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found. -
ROOTS was published
A novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. -
Beating Of Rodney King
King tried out run cops after being pulled over, then when finally cornered, king resisted arrest, leading to officers using more than nessasary force in arresting King. -
Barack Obama becomes the 1st black President
Obama became the 44th President and the first African American president.
