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Crispus Attucks dies at the Boston Massacre
A black man that was shot during the fracus known as the Boston Massacre. -
Fugitive Slave Act
If slaves ran from there owners, the legislation allowed the capture and return of the slave -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner led the rebellion that was to inspire the surrounding plantation slaves to revolt against their masters, which reuslted in a many casualties for both whites and blacks. -
Amistad Revolt
A slave ship full of Africans who unlocked their chains and slayed all the crew members. Joseph Cinque assumes leadership over the africans as well as he is the spokesman during trial regarding their freedom in America. -
Fugitive Slave Law
This law was passed to return escaped to their owners and anyone that aided them would have to pay a fee and serve some time in jail. -
Scott vs. Sanford (day of SC decision)
The court said all blacks were not citizens of the United States, but property and had no rights. -
John Brown's raid
The raid was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to lead a slave revolt that ultimately failed. -
SC Secedes from the Union
South Carolina was the first Southern state to declare its secession from the Union. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A document drawn uo by President Abraham Lincoln that had the intentions of freeing slaves in the seceded states, but it did nothing to help increase Union preservation and nothing to abolish slavery. -
End of Civil War
Robert E. Lee the Confederate Commander surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant the Union Commander. -
Assassination of Lincoln
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. -
13th amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. -
14th Amendment
Provided blacks with US citizenship. -
15th Amendment
The right for Black men to vote. -
Plessy vs Ferguson (day of SC decision)
The decision ruled that seperate was equal. -
Wilmington, NC riot
This riot is considered a turning point in North Carolina politics following Reconstruction. -
Rosewood Massacre
A racially-motivated mob in Florida eradicated a black family and other blacks becuase of the false accusations made by a young white woman. -
Scottsboro Boys
Nine black teenagers boys accused of raping two white women who accused them to cover their acts of debauchery in Alabama. -
Sweatt vs Painter (day of SC decision)
The Sweatt case was successful case that challenged the racial segregation established. -
Mc Laurin vs Oklahoma (day of SC decision)
The case's decision of the Supreme Court ruled that seperation impaired learning. -
Brown vs Board (day of SC decision)
Case establishes separate but equal was unconstitutional. -
Death of Emmett Till
Emmett was an African-American boy who was killed for talking to a married white woman while in Mississippi where racial is the highest. -
Little Rock 9
The 9 African American students were initially supposed to be admitted into the recially dominated white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The governor of Arkanas prevented the nine from entering the racially segregated school. With the intervention President Eisenhower, the nine were able to attend with the protection of the Arkansas National Guard. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby was the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. -
James Meredith
He was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
March on Washington
On Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. -
16th St. Church Bombing
In Birmingham, Alabama the 16th St. Church Bombing was bombed which killed four young black girls and injured more than 20 other people. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a strong advocate for the black empowerment movement. -
March on Selma
On March 17, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting. -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signed the resulting legislation into law to enforce the decision to give blacks the ability to vote. -
Watts Riots
The Watts Riots raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage. It is both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. -
Orangeburg Massacre
An act of racism in a small Southern town which did not allow black college students use of the community’s only bowling alley. -
Assassination of MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday April 4 at the age of 39. -
Arrest of Angela Davis
Angela Davis was arrested in New York by the FBI for her gun being used to kill a judge. -
Congressional Hearings end for Tuskegee Study
A clinical study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in African American men. -
Lucy is found
The Australopithecus or Lucy is dated to have once roamed the earth 3.2 million years ago. Being discovered in 1974 near Ethiopia, supports many arguments regardinging the human races ancestrial roots. -
ROOTS was published
Roots was a book written by Alex Haley who traced his ancestry back to his forefather Kunta Kinte a captured mandika warrior that was traded into slavery and taken from his land of Africa to the foreign land of North America. -
Beating Of Rodney King
Rodney King was an African-American construction worker who beaten by Los Angeles police officers. -
Barack Obama becomes the 1st black President
President Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
