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Crispus Attucks is known to be the first to fall during the Boston Massacre.
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Required all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return slaves who have escaped from other states to their original owners.
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A slave named Nat Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children in Southhampton County, Virginia.Turner and 16 of his conspirators were captured and executed, but the incident continued to haunt Southern whites. Blacks were randomly killed all over Southhampton County.
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53 African natives were kiddnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade.
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The government could pursue runaway slaves in any state or territory, and ensure slave owners of their property rights
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The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
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John Browns a white abolitionist started an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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After Lincolns win, submitted their resignations to seced from the Union. They were the first state to seced and the start of other states also seceding.
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The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.
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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Conflict over issues of how much control the federal government should have over the states, industrialization, trade, and especially slavery had increased tension between Northern and Southern states.General Robert E. Lee's surrender brought on the end of the Civil War in April. President Andrew Johnson formally declared the end of the war on August 20, 1866.
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Granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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In the US Constitition 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".
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Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.
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A coalition of predominately white Populists and black Republicans defeated the Democrats in 1896, and won political control of the state, Democrats vowed revenge. Newspaper editors had tensions from stories written in response and the riot broke out. Many blacks were killed and thrown in the river or ran out the town of Wilmington.
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A white woman fasley accused a black man of rape, sending her husband and a mob looking for this man. Innocent blacks were ynched, injured and kill due to this massacre destroying the town of Rosewood.
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Nine black teenagers accused of rape in Alabama on a train to find work. A fight broke out between a group of black and white hobos, and the whites were thrown off the train.Dozens of armed men rounded up nine black youths and took them to jail. The all-white jury convicted the nine, and all but the youngest, who was 12 years old, were sentenced to death.
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The University of Oklahoma denied George W. McLaurin admission to its graduate program in education, citing the segregation statute, which made it a misdemeanor to operate a school where both blacks and whites were taught.
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This case successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Brown vs Board unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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A 14 year old boy from Chicago was murdered from flirting with a white woman while visiting his relatives in Mississippi.
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A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
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Ruby is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
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James Meredith was the first African American to enrolled at the University of Mississippi.
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more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for Jobs and Freedom.
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The 16th Street baptist Church predominately black, was bombed as a act from a white supremacist terrorism. The explosion killed for young girls and injured many others.
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Malcolm was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-AmericanUnity in Manhattan when a disturbance broke out. 3 men shot Malcolm 21 times and he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving to the hospital,
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MLK led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to Montgomery, Alabama on a campain to eliminate African-American disenfranchisement in Alabama.
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The voting right act aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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A Los Angeles police officer pulled over motorist Marquette Frye and his brother for suspection of him driving drunk. Police arrested the brothers and thier mother, other officers had arrived on the scene and had hit the brothers with their batons. Tensions grew and the crowd escalated and sparked the riots, which lasted 6 days.
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After tension over efforts by S.C. State College students and others to desegrate the All Star Bowling Lanes, 3 students were killed and 27 others were wounded.
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MLK Jr was standing outside on the motels balcony when he was struck with a bullet entering his right cheek.
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Angela had been arrest by FBI after being on the run for two months to avoid proscecution of kidnapping and murder.
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Led to a total overhaul of the Health, Education and Welfare rules concerning work with human subjects.
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A 3.18 million year old hominid skeleton "Lucy" remains were found
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A novel published by Alex Haley telling the story of his 18th century African ancesters journey to American and their life as a slave.
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King sent police on a high speed chase wanting to not get charged with a DWI. After being cornered by police King was forced out the car, tased and severly beaten by 5 police officers with batons.
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Barack Obama became the 44th U.S. president, and the first African American elected to the White House.
