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1650
Capture and Enslavement of African men, women and children who were taken to the America’s for work on plantations and in mines. -
1880
Jim Crow laws - state laws, aimed at enforcing segregation between whites and blacks in the use of transport and public facilities and in the outlawing of marriage between the two racial groups. -
1952
This was the first year since 1881 without a lynching. -
1954 The Brown Decision
In 1954 a Mr. Brown (with
the help of the NAACP) took
the Topeka Board of Education to court because his daughter had to travel
miles to school when there
was a whites only school nearby. They won and on 19 May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that segregation in Education was illegal. It was a major victory although most states and districts just ignored the law. -
1955 Rosa Parkes
Dec 1st 1955 Rosa Parkes refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger. As a result she was arrested
and jailed. MLK led the local
black community in a boycott of the buses. The Supreme
Court ruled in Nov. 1956 that segregation on buses was
illegal. -
Civil rights 1957
Discrimination is now illegal.
All americans have the right to vote. -
1957 Little Rock, Arkansas
In September 1957 nine black students tried to enter Little Rock Central High School, but the State Governor used National Guardsmen to stop them from going in. President Eisenhower sided with the Blacks and sent 1000 paratroopers to protect
black students on their way to school. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Equal rights in shops, restaurants, employment, schools and more -
Happy
Everyones equal, living in peace, happiness and harmony!
