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hiram revels 1822-1901
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the civil war ended
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in 1866, residents of washington D.C., celebrated the end of slavery
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in 1867 african americans were aloud to vote in some places but white people were just getting the idea of african americans voting.
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voting
when the voting for african americans was oficial they were forced to take a literacy test an d if they don't pass they can't vote. -
everything changed
the south went back to making there own laws these laws ended the freedom of african americans' new freedoms and took away their new rights. -
by the late 1800's african americans were suffering again.
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In the early 1900's our nation was a hard place to live for the african americans
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W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader who beleived in immediate change. in 1910 he and others founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, know as the NAACP. -
rosa parks refused to give her seat up to a white man.
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HIAH
protest marchers gatheed in selma. -
african americans where oficially aloud to vote on 1965