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founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. -
first mention of African slaves in the English colonies
In 1619, Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to Jamestown; in North America, the Africans were also generally treated as indentured servants in the early colonial era. -
Beginning of the American Civil War
the Civil War opposes the northern states ("the Union"),
almost all abolitionists, and the Confederate States of America,
bringing together the eleven slave states of the South who have seceded
United States in 1860. There are then 4 million black slaves in the United States. -
abolition of slavery in the United States
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution comes into effect on December 18, 1865. "Neither slavery nor any form of involuntary servitude shall be permitted in the United States, nor in any place under their jurisdiction" -
On Vacation In Mississippi, Emmett Till, A Young Black American 14 years old and from Chicago, is kidnapped by two white men.
His body
is found three days later horribly mutilated. Body photos
by Emmett Till are published in the American press. A month later, his
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Rosa Parks, NAACP Activist, Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
because she refuses to give way to a white man on a bus. A few
days later the vast majority of black American citizens of
Montgomery decides to participate in the boycott of buses launched by a young man
pastor, Martin Luther King. It will last 382 days. -
The Supreme Court condemns segregation in public transport.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old black woman, boarded a bus to return home after work. While white passengers get on the bus, she refuses to give them her seat to sit at the bottom of the bus, in the place reserved for blacks, as required by law. She is immediately arrested. -
Assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, takes place Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 CST, 18:30 UTC. The presidential motorcade crosses the center of the city at a reduced speed. -
At age 35, Martin Luther King becomes the youngest Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10, 2005 at 01:00 | Written by Valérie Thorin
"I have a dream, today ..." It is impossible, on October 14, 1964, not to hear the famous and prophetic phrase, which characterizes the work and the person of Pastor Martin Luther King, all over the world. That day, he becomes, at age 35, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. . But this time, it is a true consecration of the struggle for rights civic blacks in the United States. -
Police open fire on black students demonstrating against the war from Vietnam to the University of Jackson (Mississippi).
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Harold Washington becomes the first black mayor of Chicago.
Harold Washington was born on April 15, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois.. He went on to serve in the Illinois Senate from 1977 to 1980, and then became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981-83), representing Illinois' 1st District. In 1983. -
First election campaign of the black American candidate Jesse Jackson.
he takes third place after the primary elections of the Party
Democrat by collecting 3.5 million votes. -
Supreme Court bans positive discrimination at school entry american public
This decision marks a significant step in the
questioning of the affirmative action in the United States. -
Election of Democrat Barack Obama at the White House.
November 4, 2008. Election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Illinois State Senator Barack Obama wins Republican candidate John McCain.
