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Timeline of Black History
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Haitian Independence
Final defeat of the French in St. Domingue results in the founding of Haiti as an independent black nation, and an inspiration to blacks in America. Haitian Independence Day is celebrated throughout northern free black communities. (http://www.ushistory.org/more/timeline.htm) -
Importation
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa. -
The Missouri compromise
bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri. -
The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison of Boston begins publishing The Liberator, the most famous anti-slavery newspaper. -
Nat Turners revolt
It was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white.The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831. -
Ship Amistad Revolt
African slaves on board the slave ship the Amistad revolted against their captors, killing all but the ship's navigator. The slaves aboard the ship became unwitting symbols for the antislavery movement in pre-Civil War United States. After several trials in which local and federal courts argued that the slaves were taken as kidnap victims rather than merchandise, the slaves were acquitted. -
The Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
The Dred Scott case
The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens. -
black codes
were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of Southern whites, who were trying to suppress the new freedom of emancipated African-American slaves, the freedmen. -
Klu Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee by ex-Confederates -
Reconstruction acts
A series of Reconstruction acts are passed, carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves. -
Howard university
Howard University's law school becomes the country's first black law school. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction ends in the South. Federal attempts to provide some basic civil rights for African Americans quickly erode. -
The Black Exodus
The Black Exodus takes place, in which tens of thousands of African Americans migrated from southern states to Kansas. -
Segregation is made legal
The Supreme Court decides that it is legal to separate black and white people in schools, on buses, in restaurants, or in any other public place. This type of separation, called segregation, leads to Jim Crow laws that treat blacks unfairly. -
NAACP Founded
A group led by the prominent black educator W.E.B. Du Bois met at Niagara Falls created a new political protest movement to demand civil rights for blacks. Violent hostility towards blacks had increased around the country. Colored People (NAACP). Among the NAACP’s stated goals were the abolition of all forced segregation, the enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments, equal education for blacks and whites and complete enfranchisement of all black men. -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad. -
Harlem Renaissance
In the 1920s, the great migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North sparked an African–American cultural renaissance that took its name from the New York City neighborhood of Harlem but became a widespread movement in cities throughout the North and West. Also known as the Black Renaissance or the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that. -
African -Americans in WWII
More than 3 million blacks would register for service during the war, with some 500,000 seeing action overseas. According to War Department policy, enlisted blacks and whites were organized into separate units. -
Slavery is abolished
The United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment makes slavery illegal in all states.
