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Harriot Tubman
1849 Escape. Harriet was 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 was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. She then hitched a ride with a woman and her husband who were passing by. They were abolitionists and took her to Philadelphia. Here, Harriet got a job where she saved her pay to help free slaves. She also met William Still. Still was one o -
Emancipation Proclamation
epWhen the American Civil War (1861-65) began, President Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflict as concerning the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery. Although he personally found the practice of slavery abhorrent, he knew that neither Northerners nor the residents of the border slave states would support abolition as a war aim. But by mid-1862, as thousands of slaves fled to join the invading Northern armies, Lincoln was convinced that abolition had become a soun -
African American CIvil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. -
Harlem Renaissance
uring the early 1900s, the burgeoning African-American middle class began pushing a new political agenda that advocated racial equality. The epicenter of this movement was in New York, where three of the largest civil rights groups established their headquarters. -
Jackie Robison
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play in baseball's major leagues. The youngest of five children, Robinson was raised in relative poverty by a single mother. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an excellent athlete and played four sports: football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the region's Most Valuable Player in basebal -
Emmett Till
History1. Emmett Till murder- in 1955, a 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murder. His name was Emmett Till. The case was not just about the murder of a teenager boy. It was also about a new generation of younger people committing their lives to social changes -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
1. Rosa Parks bus boycott- on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks a 42-year-old African American women, boarded a bus, on the way home from work. When all of the bus seats had been taking. Then a white man boarded, 4 black people were told to give up their seats. But Rosa Parks quietly refused to give up her seat. She was then arrested and charged for not following the segregation laws. -
I have a dream
I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. The speech, delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] -
Loving vs. VIrginia
this case presents a constitutional question never addressed by this Court: whether a statutory scheme adopted by the State of Virginia to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. [Footnote 1] For reasons which seem to us to reflect the central meaning of those constitutional commands, we conclude that these statutes cannot stand consistently with the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MLKJ1. Martin Luther king Jr. assassination- at 6:01 pm on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther king Jr. was shot & killed by a sniper bullet. In outrage of the murder, many blacks took the street of United States in a massive wave of riots.
