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1619
in 1619 the first record of an African American slavery in the English Colonial America -
New York Slave Revolt
Reacting to harsh treatment by their masters, about 25 Black slaves and American Indians set fire to an outhouse and laid in ambush of their oppressors, killing nine men and wounding several others. The slaves then fled into the woods where within two days more than 40 had been arrested and 6 others committed suicide before apprehension. -
American Revolution
Thousands of enslaved African Americans in the South escape to British or Loyalist lines, as they were promised freedom if they fought with the British. -
importing of slaves is band
Importation of slaves into the U.S is banned; This is also the earliest day under thee U.S Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery. -
anti slavery society
The American Anti-Slavery Society, an abolitionist society is founded by William Lloyd Garris and Arthur Tappan. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery to philidelphia and begins helping other slaves to escape through the underground railroad. -
Civil War begins
n January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation: “All persons held as slaves within any States…in rebellion against the United States,” it declared, “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” -
KKK
The KKK is formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, made up of white confederate veterans. It becomes a paramilitary insurgent group to enforce white supremacy. -
Voting rights
15th amendment guarantees the right of male citizens of U.S to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
first black senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes first black member of the senate. -
Enforcment Act
this was a united states federal law enacted during the reconstruction era that guranteed african americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. the supreme court decided this act was unconstitutuional and not passed. -
plessy v. ferguson
Supreme court decision states racial segregation is no unconstitutional. -
woodrow wilson
President Woodrow Wilson orders physical resegregation of federal work places and employment after 50 years of integrated facilities. -
Great Migration
The Great Migration begins and lasts until 1940. Approcimately one and half million African Americans move from the souther united states to the north and midwest.More than five million migrate in the second Great Migration from 1940-1970. -
Harry Truman
Harry Truman issues Executive order to end racial discrimination in U.S Armed Forces. -
Brown vs Board of Education
in the brown v. board of education they declare that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of the bus to a white passenger. She was arrested, however this started a year long bus boycott which led to desegregated buses. -
Little Rock Nine
9 black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Govornor Orval Faubu.Despite threats several of them graduated from Central High. They were known as the Little Rock Nine. -
sit - ins
four black students in Greensbore NC begin a sit-in at a segregated woolworths lunch counter this triggers many nonviolent protests throughtout the south. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King arrested and jailed during anti segregation protests in Birmingham Alabama. -
Civil Rights Passed
In 1964 after all the hard work over the years, many deaths and arrests they accomplished their goal in getting civil rights passed.
