African American Timeline - Race/Ethnicity

By RichardJWillis

  • First African American slaves to Jamestown (VA) Colony

  • First Colonial (America) Slave Codes enacted

  • Bacon's Rebellion (VA)

  • Boston Massacre

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Doctrine of Discovery from US Supreme Court

  • Antelope and Amistad slave ship cases to Supreme Court

  • SCOTUS Dred Scott decision

  • Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln)

  • Federal Civil Rights Act (Post-Civil War

  • 14th Amendment Due Process ratified (impressed on states)

  • SCOTUS Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' doctrine

  • SCOTUS Hearing and rehearing on Brown v. Board of Education (9-0, Warren)

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964