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African American Timeline (1619 - 2016)

By perran.senpai
  • 2016 BCE

    Murder of Philando Castile

  • 2015 BCE

    Jamar Clark shot by Mpls. police

  • 2012 BCE

    Trayvon Martin killed, beginning of Black Lives Matter movement

  • Period: 1990 BCE to 2017 BCE

    Urban Gentrification Increases

    Displacing African American population
  • Period: 1980 BCE to 2017 BCE

    War on Drugs

    Racial disparities and mass incarceration
  • 1968 BCE

    Fair Housing Act

  • 1964 BCE

    Civil Rights Act

  • 1960 BCE

    Desegregation efforts and pushback

  • 1954 BCE

    Brown v. Board of Education

  • 1952 BCE

    Progress?

    First year in 70 years with no reported lynchings
  • 1950 BCE

    Urban Renewal & highway construction

    Lead to the isolation, displacement and impoverished urban minorities.
  • 1934 BCE

    Federal Housing Administration

    FHA mortgage loans discriminate against non-whites (Red-lining)
  • 1930 BCE

    New Deal

    Disproportionately benefits whites, excludes African Americans - roots of modern middle class/ wealth gaps.
  • 1920 BCE

    Hate Crime

    3 African American men lynched in Duluth, MN
  • 1877 BCE

    The beginning of Jim Crow

    Segregation and the loss of rights for African Americans in the South
  • 1872 BCE

    1st African American Governor

    Was only in office for 43 days and none were elected until 1990
  • Period: 1870 BCE to 1950 BCE

    Sharecropping

    Cycle of poverty for poor Southern farmers ( African American & White)
  • 1868 BCE

    14th Amendment

    African Americans gain Citizenship and "equal" rights
  • 1866 BCE

    Convict leasing begins

    slavery loophole = prison labor
  • 1865 BCE

    13th Amendment

    Slavery is abolished
  • 1865 BCE

    KKK is founded

    The KKK is founded in response to the 13th amendment
  • Period: 1865 BCE to 1877 BCE

    Reconstruction

    Temporary gains in political/ economic rights after Civil War
  • 1860 BCE

    Last slave ship docks in USA

    50 years after ban
  • 1857 BCE

    Dred Scott v. Sanford

    African Americans are not citizens and cannot sue; "a black man has no rights that a white man is bound to respect"
  • 1789 BCE

    U.S. Constitution

    3/5 clause, citizenship for whites
  • Period: 1680 BCE to 1705 BCE

    Virginia Slave Code

    (Slaves = African or Native American, servants = white)
  • 1619 BCE

    First African indentured servants arrive in colonies

  • Period: 1619 BCE to 1865 BCE

    Slavery

  • G.I. Bill

    Increase number of African Americans in college. (More benefits to white population)

  • Tuskegee Syphilis experiment ends

    Exploited African American test subjects