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Crispus Attucks died in the Boston Massacre
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 act
The second fugitive slave law called for the return of slaves "on pain of heavy penalty" but permitted a jury trial under the condition that fugitives be prohibited from testifying in their own defense. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South. -
Amistad Revolt
In January 1839, 53 African natives were kidnapped from eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish slave trade. They were then placed aboard a Spanish slave ship bound for Havana, Cuba. -
Fugitive slave law
As Northern states abolished slavery, most relaxed enforcement of the 1793 law, and many passed laws ensuring fugitive slaves a jury trial. -
Scott vs,. Sandford (day of decision
John Marshall, in his time the single most influential advocate for strong National Government, had died in 1835. President Andrew Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney (pronounced Tawney). -
John Brown Raid
Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. -
sc secedes from the union
South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state (or part of a state) that did not end their rebellion against the Union -
13th Amendment
13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
End of Civil War
In an event that is generally regarded as marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
14th amendment
The Constitution was modified by section 2 of the 14th amendment. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. -
15th amendment
The Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
In a 7 to 1 decision the "separate but equal" provision of public accommodations by state governments was found to be constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. -
Wilmongton NC Riots
he events of November 10, 1898, were the result of a long-range campaign strategy by Democratic Party leaders to regain political control of Wilmington at that time state’s most populous city and North Carolina in the name of white supremacy. -
Phoenix Election riot
On November 9, 1898 four Negroes were lynched in front of a crowd of 500 white men for their involvement in the riot. After the lynching a group of 50 armed white men came together to seek vengeance on the blacks and the Tolbert family. -
Rosewood Massacre
A massacre was carried out in the small, predominately black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. -
Scottsboro Boys
Did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931. -
Mc Laurin vs. Oklahoma (day of SC decision)
The Supreme Court, in one of two education desegregation decision that day, struck another blow to segregated education when it declared an Oklahoma statute unconstitutional. -
Sweatt vs. Painter (day of SC decision)
Racial separation by force of law was a historic custom in the United States until the decision of Sweatt v. Painter by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1950. -
Brown vs Board (day of SC decision)
upreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Ruby Bridges
She attended William Frantz Elementary School. -
Little Rock 9
The barring of nine Black African-American students who were prevented from entering Arkansas’ Little Rock Central High School on September 4, 1957. -
James Meredith
In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. -
March on Washington
The event was officially titled the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. -
16th street baptist church bombing
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
He was the leader and the nation of Islam. -
March on Selma
The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act
The height of the civil rights movement in the South, a movement committed to securing equal voting rights for African Americans. -
Watts Riots
Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old black man, was arrested for drunk driving on the edge of Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. -
Orangeburg Massacre
On the night of February 8, 1968, eight to 10 seconds of police gunfire left three young black men dying and 27 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
LUCY is discovered
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone representing about 40% of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis. -
Roots was published
It about a family and how it went from gerneration to gerneration but it all started with Kunta Kinta -
Arrest of Angela Davis
On August 11, the F.B.I. issued a warrant for Angela Davis's arrest. She was accused of having bought the guns for the shootout and therefore charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in the events of August 7. -
Beating Of Rodney King
an African-American construction worker who became nationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A local witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of it from his balcony. -
Congressional Hearings end for Tuskegee Study
The study initially involved 600 black men – 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. The study was conducted without the benefit of patients' informed consent. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama, in full Barack Hussein Obama II and also 44th president of the United States (2009– ) and the first African American to hold the office. -
Death of Emmet Till
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
