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Crispus Attucks dies in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks was an African American man who was killed in the Boston Massacre. -
Fugitive Slave Law
This law provided for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was a self-styled Baptist minister who led a slave rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia. He took 16 people and killed sixty white men, women, and children. He also killed slaves who wold not follow him or was willing to snitch on him. The rebellion was supressed on August 23, 1831 and Turner was hanged November 11. -
Amistad Revolt
A group of slaves on board the slave ship the Amistad launched a successful rebellion killing most of the Spaniards on the ship. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This a law passed that allow Southern slave owners to retrieve runaway slave that fled to the North. -
Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott sued his slave owner for freedom after his owner took him into a slave free state. The court ruled that slaves are not people and can not use fedral courts. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, a Northern white abolitionist, led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia. It was a leading cause for the Civil War. -
SC secedes from Union
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union and start the Confederacy. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A decleration written bby Lincoln that declared that all slaves are free. -
15th Amendment
This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
Phoenix Riot
There was a roit in Pheonix South Carolina when the Tolberts attempted to decrease the black vote through disfranchisement. -
Rosewood Massacre
The Rosewood Massacre was a massacre 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. -
Scottsboro Boys (day event started)
Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accused black teenagers of rape they were arrested. This started lynch mobs that wanted the boys killed. -
Mc Laurin vs. Oklahoma (day of SC decision)
George McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma to pursue a Doctor of Education degree. McLaurin successfully sued in the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to gain admission to the institution. -
Sweatt vs. Painter (day of SC decision)
Sweatt vs. Painter U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Brown vs. Board (day of SC decision)
Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Death of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 year old boy, from Chicago, who was brutally murdered for whistling with a white woman. The murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were aquitted for the crimes. -
Little Rock 9 (1st day of school)
The " Little Rock Nine" were nine kids who enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Ruby Bridges (1st day at WFES)
Ruby was the only black child to be assigned to William Frantz Elementary. She recieved death threats and required marshal protection. -
James Meredith (1st day at Ole Miss)
James H. Meredith became the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. He was prevented from entering twice before and JFK had to send federal marshals for his protection. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a protest for Jobs and Freedom that 200,000 - 300,000 and marched on Washington D.C. It was known as the greatest Civil Rights march and took a giant step for CIvil Rights. -
16th St. Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed as an act of white supremacist terrorism. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot 21 times in the chest while addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. -
March on Selma
600 people were protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and exclusion from the electoral process. -
Orangeburg Massacre
Protestors were shot by South Carolina Highway Patrol Officers while they were demonstrating against racial segregation at a local bowling alley. -
Assassination of MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. -
Arrest of Angela Davis
She was arrested for her involvement with Jonathan Jackson, a 17 year old African-American student, who took control of a courtroom and killed three people. -
LUCY is discovered
Donald Johanson found 40% of a female
australopithecus afarensis that they named LUCY. -
ROOTS was published
Alex Haley published his book ROOTS: The Saga of an American Family. -
Beating of Rodney King
Rodney King was beaten by two LAPD police officers after leading police on a high speed chase. It lead to the famous "Rodney King" riots in Southern California. -
Barack Obama becomes the first black president
Barack Obama becomes the 44th president and the first black president in American history.
