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Missouri Compromise
Was an effort to make the Northern States Free states and the Southern states slave states this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory. -
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15th Amendment
Guaranteed those former slaves retained the right to vote by banning state suffrage laws that discriminated against any group of citizens on the bias of race. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad born a slave in Maryland; she escaped when she was only 25 years old. She returned to the South over 19 times to help over 300 enslaved African Americans to freedom. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett age 14 was visiting family in Money, Mississippi was brutally murdered after flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks bus boycott
On the first of December of 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for not standing and letting a white person sit in her seat she refused to stand and this led to the bus boycott. -
Little Rock 9
Were the 9 African American students involved in desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. -
I Have a Dream Speech
August 28, 1963 King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave his “I Have a Dream “speech, this delivered 200,000 civil rights supporters. -
Sixeenth Street Baptist Church
September 15, 1963 racially motivated bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which resulted in the death of four innocent black girls, perhaps the darkest day in Birmingham’s history. -
Martin Luther King assassination
April 4th 1969 Martin Luther King was hit by a sniper’s bullet while standing in a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee the bullet entered King’s cheek traveled through his neck and finally stopped at his shoulder blade he was rushed it a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead an hour after he was shot.
