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Slaves Arrive in America
First African contracted servants arrive in American colonies -
Every American Colony had slaves
By this year, just about every colony in America had slaves brought from Africa -
The Stono Rebellion
Slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising -
Slave importing Banned
American congress bans further importation of slaves -
Liberator
Anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator is published and becomes a leading voice in the Abolitionist movement -
Civil War and Emancipation
Emancipation was the freeing of 3 million slaves in the rebel states of the civil war -
Separate but Equal
Legislation was introduced (Laws)in the southern states which eventuated in separate schools for blacks and whites. -
NAACP Founded
Establishment of political protest movement who demanded civil rights for blacks -
Mississippi Delta Blues
By: Muddy waters -
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
By: Bessie Smith -
Hard Time Killin Floor Blues
By: Skip James -
Trouble so Hard
By: Vera Hall -
African Americans in WWII
In WWII, many African Americans were ready to fight forRoosevelt the “Four Freedoms” -
Jackie Robinson
By 1900, the unwritten colour line barring blacks from white teams in Pro. baseball was strictly enforced. -
Didn't it Rain Sister Rosetta Tharpe
By: Rosetta Tharpe -
Black, Brown and White
By: Big Bill Broonzy -
Brown V. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1955, an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, was told by the bus driver to a white man. Rosa had refused, and was thrown to jail. -
Mannish Boy
By: Muddy Waters -
Central High School Integrated
Central High School, located in the state capital of Little Rock was integrated -
Core and Freedom Rides
Founded in 1942 by the civil rights leader James Farmer, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sought to end discrimination and improve race relations through direct action. -
Birmingham Church Bombed
In mid-September, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama during Sunday services; four young African-American girls were killed in the explosion. -
At Last Etta James
By: Etta James -
I Have a Dream
On August 28, 1963, some 250,000 people—both black and white—participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest demonstration in the history of the nation’s capital and the most significant display of the civil rights movement’s growing strength. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thanks to the campaign of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had begun to gain serious momentum in the United States by 1960. -
Freedom Summer and the”Mississippi Burning” Murders
In the summer of 1964, civil rights organisations including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children. -
Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed in August 1965. The Voting Rights Act sought to overcome the legal barriers that still existed at the state and local level preventing blacks from exercising the right to vote given them by the 15th Amendment. -
Shot on James Meredith
By: J.B. Lenoir. This song was based on the writers friend, who got shot by a man, as if he was a dog. -
Everything Gonna Be Alright
By: Big Mama Thornton -
Da Thrill is Gone From Here
By: Chris Thomas King
