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Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet; given a piece of paper by a white abolitionist neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she got put on to a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination, and kind enough to give her directions to safe houses and names of people who would help her cross the Mason-Dixon line. She then hitched a ride with a woman and her husband who passed by. The abolitionists took her to Philadelphia. Then she got a job. -
Civil War
In this period Lincoln had been the president. The states fought over the rights of slaves, in the south they wanted no rights for slaves and, in the north they wanted to free the slaves. The southern also known as the Confederates seceded from the Union (north) because for this reason. -
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Civil War
They fought for a good 4 years. In the end the Union won and they still had trouble in the southern states with bullying African Americans. -
Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance; a celebration of African-American heritage and culture, manifested through, new business, art, literature, music and dance. This boom of expression, also called the New Negro Movement, had long-lasting, positive effects on the social, intellectual and economic standing of African Americans. -
African American Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement grew out of a century of grassroots efforts in a long struggle for racial justice for African Americans. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of African slaves and their descendants to resist racism and get rid of slavery. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago while visiting his relatives in Mississippi when he got snatched from his great-uncle's home on the night of August 28. He then got beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown into Tallahatchie River. They found his body 3 days later. Apparently, the murderers killed Till because he whistled at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks's Bus Boycott
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago while visiting his relatives in Mississippi when he got snatched from his great-uncle's home on the night of August 28. He then got beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown into Tallahatchie River. They found his body 3 days later. Apparently, the murderers killed Till because he whistled at a white woman. -
Little Rock 9
A lot of whites beat the African students because they didn’t want them in their school. So, to make sure that the African American students completed a day of school the president sent 101st airborne division to Little Rock. Each day had their own patroller to walk with them to school and during school, but the whites still beat them. They stabbed Melba Patillo and sprayed acid in her eyes. If that patroller didn’t throw water on her then she would have been blind. -
16th Street Baprtist Church
On Sunday, 15th September, 1963, a white man got seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. At 10.22 a.m., the bomb exploded killing Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). The four girls; attending Sunday school classes at the church, twenty-three other people got hurt by the blast. Civil rights activists blamed George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
- At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got hit by a sniper's bullet. He stood on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
