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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
Quick Video On The Background of Novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852. This anti-slavery novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". It is credited to helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In such an explosive plot, her story greatly furthered the Abolitionist cause and promoted outrage in plantation America."So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." -Abraham Lincoln -
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American Civil War
Civil War Facts, Pictures, & VideosThe Civil War was a clash between the economic interests of the South versus the North. The Southern states whose agricultural economies depended on slavery wanted to secede from the Union to moke the Confederate States of America. The North & the Federal Government (under Abraham Lincoln) wanted to abolish slavery and keep America united, however the South was afraid that without slavery, their agricultural economy would diminish. The Civil War was one of the deadliest wars in American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Official Document of Emancipation ProclamationPresident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 in the third year of civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states shall be free. However, it applied only to the states seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery completley, it captured the hearts of millions and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. -
Fifteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution
The 15th Amendment RapThe Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". By using poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, the Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. -
The Mississippi Plan
The Mississippi Plan was the name of the two attempts in the South to disfranchise, disable the right to voter for African Americans.The first Mississippi Plan was after federal troops with drew from the southern states. On election day, bands of Whites carrying firearms would menace Black voters. It also required the possible voters to read the U.S. Constitution. This allowed the registration officials to discriminate between white and black illiterates. -
First Jim Crow Laws
Living Under Jim Crow Short VideoJim Crow laws in U.S. history were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between 1876 and the beginning of a strong civil rights movement in the 1950s. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine performed by, Thomas Dartmouth. The term came to be a derogatory term for blacks and a designation for their segregated life. -
Civil Rights Cases strikes down Civil Rights Act of 1875
Key Court Cases in Civil RightsThe Civil Rights Cases, were a group of similar cases combined into one issue for the U.S. Supreme Court to review. The Court held that Congress lacked constitutional authority after the enforcdments of the Fourteenth Amendment to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals and organizations, rather than local governments. More particularly, the Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was uncontitutional and in 1883 was struck down. -
Ida B. Wells Publishes Pamphlet "Southern Horrors"
Offical Pamphlet "Southern Horrors"Journalist and speaker Ida B. Wells is known for leading the fight against the lynching of African Americans in the late nineteenth & twenteth centuries. Already with a respected voice, Wells published Southern Horrors in 1892 after a close friend diedin a lynch mob. The book's title mocked the justification for lynching. It reflected greatley on society and stirred many events. -
Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court Case & ActivitiesPlessy v. Ferguson is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision "upholding the constitutionality of state laws" that required racial segregation in facilities under the term "separate but equal." This term remained a standard doctrine in the U.S. law until its revisal in the 1954. The ruling in this case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations. -
First Meeting of NAACP
Official Website of NAACPThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the US.. Its goal is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". The NAACP bestows many awards and shows outstanding achievement and still exists today. -
Omaha Race Riot of 1919, Nebraska
The Omaha Race Riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of several blacks and whites combined. A public rampage by thousands of whites set fire to the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha. This riot led to more than 20 race riots that occurred in major cities of the United States during the "Red Summer of 1919." -
The CORE Sends Men on Journey of Reconciliation
Participants of Journey and Freedom RidesThe Journey of Reconciliation was a form of non-violent action to challenge segregation laws on buses in the Southern United States. The two-week journey by 16 men began on 9 April 1947. It iis thought that this journey later influenced the Freedom Rides of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. The Journey of Reconciliation achieved a great deal of publicity and was the start of a long campaign by the Congress of Racial Equality. -
Civil Rights Congress Protests Inauguration Harry S. Truman
The inauguration of Harry S. Truman as the 33rd President of the United States was held on January 20, 1949. -
To Kill a Mockingbird Published
Harper Lee's Achievement VideoTo Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately success, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. Reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. To date, it is Lee's only published novel, and although she continues to respond to the book's impact, she has refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964. -
President Kennedy Assasinated
Course of Events During AssasinationJohn F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation from 1963 to 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
