African American History Timeline

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  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    [The Missouri Compromise](www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html)This compromise was another way for the South and the North argued over slavery. The Missouri compromise in 1820 said that all Free states and slave states would all be equal.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    In 1861 there was a lot of tension between the northern and southern United States. Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860. The Civil War lasted through 1861-1865. Four years of the battle are marked as historic places.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation took place on January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced The Emancipation Proclamation, as the nation came close to its third year of a bloody civil war. The Proclamation said “that all people held as slaves.

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, as a punishment of a crime.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution gave African American men the right to vote by declaring that the “right of citizens of the United States. On February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment wouldn’t be realized for almost a century.

  • Plessey v. Ferguson

    Plessey v. Ferguson
    The Plessey v. Ferguson is a landmark United States Supreme Court understanding the jurisprudence of the United States. This handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the old age opinion written by Henry Billings Brown. This all took place on June 7th, 1892.

  • Rosa Park's Bus Boycott

    Rosa Park's Bus Boycott
    The Rosa Park’s Bus Boycott took place on December 1st, 1955. Rosa Park’s a 42 year old African American woman. Was on a bus and she was sitting in a seat a white persons seat and a white men told her to get up cause he wanted that seat and she told him no and she got arrested and got convicted of violating the laws of if you are on a bus and a white person wants the seat that you are in you have to give it up and move to another seat.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    The Little Rock Nine Foundation was designed to promote the ideals of justice and equality for everyone. It’s to educational pursuits of nine young black children; this foundation is dedicated to the proposition that racist ideology will not dictate educational policies and or practices of the 21st century. Children still today don’t have the education opportunities in the 21st century. The people through The Little Rock Nine Foundation, are depending upon to assuring that our youth, in particul

  • Martin Luther King Assassination

    Martin Luther King Assassination
    On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was killed with one single shot which went through his face and neck. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was there to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation works. About an hour after the shooting he was pronounced dead at 7:05 PM at St. Joseph Hospital.

  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
    Sixteenth Strret Baptist ChurchIs a Baptist church Birmingham, Alabama which is owned by African Americans. In September 1963, it was a target of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist church bombing. This bombing had killed four girls in the midst of the America Civil Rights Movement.