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Crispus Attucks dies in Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks was the first know person to die for the American Revolution during the Boston Massacre -
Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Slave Nat turner led a massive slave rebellion killing anywhere from 55 to 65 people. The rebellion was later suppressed at the Belmont Plantation -
Amistad Revolt
Slaves aboard the Slaver "The Amistad" revolted and overtook control of the ship. They then forced two of the survivors to return the ship to Africa. -
Fugitive Slave Act
It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. -
Scott vs Sanford
Determined that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in federal court. -
John Browns Raid
John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. He and 18 men led the riad to instigate a slave rebellion but were unsucessful in capturing the federal arsenal. -
SC secedes from the Union
South Carolina, unanimously adopted an ordinance dissolving the connection between South Carolina and the United States of America. -
Emancipation Proclimation
The offical document issued by President Lincoln that freed all slaves in America. -
13th Amendment
The amendment that abolished slavery. -
The end of the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House. -
Assassination of President Lincoln
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilks Booth in Ford's Theatre. -
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. -
15 th Amendmnet
Granted African American men the right to vote -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court decision that said "seperate but equal" -
Phoenix, SC riot
Whites rioted in Phoenix SC to avenge the death of "Bose" Ethridge. Eight black men were reported dead, four of them being lynched in front of the local church. -
Wilmington NC Riot
The riots began when a group of as many as 1000 men broke into a printing press used by Alex Manly. They continued to break into the building, destroy the printing press, and then burn the building to the ground. -
Rosewood Massacre
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. An official report claims six blacks killed along with two whites. Other accounts suggest a larger total. At the end of the carnage only two buildings remained standing, a house and the town general store. -
Scottsboro Boys
An alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis. -
Mclaurin vs Oklahoma (SC decision)
The differential treatment shown to an African American student was itself a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
Sweatt vs Painter (SC Decision)
An African American student was denied admission to the state supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is a Negro -
Brown vs Board (SC Decision)
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. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges became the first black child integrated into the New Orleans school system. -
Death of Emmett Till
Emmett Till a 14 year old boy was beaten and brutally killed by two white men for flirting with a white woman. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine teenage students were the first black students to be integrated into the second largest school system in the country, Little Rock. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
16th Street Church Bombing
On September 15, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama–a church with a predominantly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom X was killed by black muslims in New York, New York -
March on Selma
Massive protest march from Selma to the state capitol of Montgomery, 54 miles away. -
Voting Rights Act
Congress determined that the existing federal anti-discrimination laws were not sufficient to overcome the resistance by state officials to enforcement of the 15th Amendment. So the Voting Rights Acts were passed on August 6, 1965. -
Watts Riots
The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. -
James Meredith
James Meredith was denied acceptence into the University of Mississippi because of his race. He later became the schools first black student. He was most well konw for leading the March Against Fear in 1966 -
Orangeburg Massacre
Nine white highway patrolmen opened gunfire onto a college campus—killing three black students and wounding 27 others. -
Assassination of MLK, jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was shot by a high powered rifle. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis -
Arrest of Angela Davis
Angela davis was arrested for the crimes of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. She was said to be one of the nations top ten most wanted criminals. -
Tuskegee Study
A study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks. -
Lucy
The Australopithecus afarensis know as "Lucy" was found in Etheopia by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. -
Roots
Author Alex Haley published a book called "Roots" that told the story of his family in slavery and the African Kunta Kinte. -
Beating of Rodney King
Rodney Glen King was 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. -
Barack Obama
President Barack Obama becomes the nations first African American president.
