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This act ables any federal officer to arrest any slave they suspect are runaways
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On January First, 1863 the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation were set into motion setting all of slaves free legaly
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In 1864 the emancepation of slaves was legalized
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Ida B. Wells sues the Chesapeake, Ohio & South Western Railroad Company for its use of segregated "Jim Crow" cars.
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By this time most blacks were literate and trained to work in normal jobs around the commnity
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This was the first organized meeting of the Negro Commity Where they chose the name "the National Assosiation for the Advancment of Colored People"
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35,000 Klu Klux Klan members march in Washington D.C. as a protest agaist making blacks free than they want them to be
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In 1926 The famed Basketball team 'The Harlem Globetrotters' were formed
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In 1939 Billie Holiday performed 'Strange Fruit' in NYC, a song to protest lynchings
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In this year, Georgia abolished segregation on busses.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham for "parading without a permit"
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Micheal Jackson releases 'Thriller" the top selling album of all time, bieng african american this was huge.
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Barack Obama wins the 2008 Presidential election as the 44th president and the only african american president
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Baeack Obama won his second term election as president
