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Missouri Compromise
The Missour Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery faction in the United States Congress,involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Civil War
was a war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after a several Southern slaves declared their session and formed the Conferate States of America. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. -
Emmett Till murder
The Emmett Till murder was a murder case of 14 year old Emmett Till who was brutality beaten to death and was left in the Tallahatchie River to decompose.He was killed for reportedly flriting with a white women. -
Rosa Park's bus boycott
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American women boared a Montgomery City bus to go home form work.She sat ner thhe middle of the bus, just behind the 10 reserved seats for whites.The bus driver told the 4 blacks sitting behin the reserved seat move to the end of the bus.At this point Rosa Parks refused to move for a white man and got arrested. -
I Have A Dream speech
"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." This is just a part of Marther Luther King's speech but it still made its point to some people.He always wanted colored people and white people to join hands and be one -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four girls.This murderous act shocked the and galvanized the civil right movment. -
Martin Luther King assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee on April 4,1968 at the age of 39.His killer was James Earl Ray who was a fugitive from the Missour State Penitentiary.
