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13th Amendment
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It provides that Neither slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
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African American History timeline
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15th Amendment
It was ratified on February 3, 1870, that African Americans.
It was passed by congress February 26, 1869 Ratified by states & took effect: 2/3/1870 -
Founding of NAACP
The NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded February 12, 1909.
The NAACP has on of the biggest group of its kind. It has over 1,200 branches. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
People would call her "Moses" From the year 1850-1858, Harriet Tubman helped over 300 slaves on the Underground Railroad so they could reach freedom. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
It took 3 years of fighting to pass this in to a law. The argument about it being passed as a law started in 1952 and lasted till May 17, 1954. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett was staying at his uncle's house when he was kiddnapped. He then was beatin and shot in the head and was thrown in to the Tallahatchie River. A lady found his body in the river three days later. The boy was murdered for whistling at a white lady. -
Rosa Parks's bus boycott
Rosa Parks’s Bus Boycott: Rosa Park was bus boycott started in December 5, 1955, and lasted till December 20, 1956. The boycott lasted 381 days. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock 9: the school year of 1957-58 there were nine kids were taken to be placed in to all white schools. -
I Have A Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech called “I Have a Dream.” He gave this speech in Washington D.C. in 1963. There was over 250,000 people there listing -
Martin Luther King jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, and later died at 7:05 p.m. at St. Jospeh Hospital. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray. Ray was arrseted in Herthrow airport in London, on June 8.
