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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people. -
Plessey v. Ferguson
In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law that required separate blacks and whites on railroad -
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement" -
Jackie Robinson
he broke baseball's color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Rosa parks bus boycott
Rosa parks refused to give up to her seat to a white man and she got arrested. -
Greensboro, Nc sits in
4 arican-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. -
I had a dream..
in his speech, he said 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal'." -
Sixeenth street baptist church
members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church -
Loving v. Virginia
two people of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia -
Martin Luther King assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
