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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by the U.S Senate and House of Representatives to maintain the balance of power between the slaveholding states and Free states, the slaveholding states feared that if they became outnumbered in Congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interests in property and trade. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland, she led hundreds of slaves to their freedom, along the underground railroad. Harriet was later a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the civil war she was a spy with the federal forces in South Carolina. She helped more than 300 slaves reach freedom. -
Civil War
The civil war was between the United States and southern slave states. After four years of getting the confederacy was defeated and slavery was abolished. -
Founding of NAACP
The founding of NAACP was a milestone in African American history and in U.S race relations, the groups founding approach African American and whites uniting in opposition to discriminatory laws and social practices proved popular and the NAACP expanded rapidly. Its first meeting had 53 people, within two years it boasted chapters in Chicago, Boston, and New York magazine -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was an American baseball player that became the first black major league baseball player of the modern era. Jackie broke the color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He wrote 2 books “First Class Citizen” & “I Never Had it Made” -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago, he was visiting his relatives in Mississippi one night, and that’s when he got kidnapped from his uncles home on august 28th, he was beaten and then shot in the head and then he was thrown in the Tallahatchie River. He was found 3 days later, the reason he was killed was because he whistled at a white women. -
Rosa Parks's bus Boycott
Rosa park was sitting on the bus and a white man came and told her to get up so he could sit there but Rosa refused and the man called the cops and the officer arrested her and asked “why don’t you stand up?” and Rosa replied “I don’t think I should have to.” These few words changed the African American life. Montgomery bus lines realized they had suffered a serious blow from the boycott, they began to make changes, they couldn’t tell the blacks where to sit on the busses. -
I Have a Speech
Martin Luther King gave his speech for freedom he began his speech with the emancipation of slaves, issued by Abraham Lincoln, and later mentions that after being freed from slavery, blacks are still not free. Black people are not fighting for their own satisfaction, to fight until they feel content with what they have accomplished. Black people are fighting for continuous freedom and equality, not to be stopped with kings’ speech. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Chruch
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed on a Sunday during the services, the bomber was hidden under a set of cinder block steps on the side of the church, tunneled under the basement and placed a bundle of dynamite which was under the girls restroom. This blast killed 4 girls: Cynthia Wesler, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins, and Denise McNair. -
Martin Luther Kind assassination
Martin Luther was shot dead while he was standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was killed because of his beliefs and movements.
