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Separate but Equal doctrine and start of Jim Crow
This happened directly after the end of the Civil war and was a way to regulate African American Rights. The laws included the separate but equal law where the African Americans were allowed rights such as school but a way lower scale which is said to be equal. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This court hearing was about how segregating kids in schools was unconstitutional. The Jim Crow Laws had allowed this to happen. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event was about Rosa Parks being denied service and a spot towards the front of the bus due to her skin color. -
Elizabeth Eckford Walking Alone to Little Rock Central High School
Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, is shown in this famous image, taken by Will Counts on September 4, 1957, walking quietly and carefully toward Little Rock Central High School despite being harassed by a resentful white crowd. The image emphasizes the individual bravery of young African American students during the Civil Rights Movement and powerfully depicts the fierce opposition to school desegregation in the American South. -
Ruby Bridges and the New Orleans School Integration
A school girl who attended a former all white school and while being escorted in she was met with the disapproval of everyone and got bombarded by many. -
The Greensboro Four and the Sit-In Movement
A group of 4 african american students in a tech university began their civil rights movement by sitting at a “whites only lunch table” to try and rebel. -
Freedom rides
A group of 7 african americans and 6 white people boarded buses after the new bill that banned segregation of transportation and they still got met with violence and disapproval by many. -
Loving v. Virginia
the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Virginia statutes prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional in the case Loving v. Virginia. The case was decided nine years after Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, had pleaded guilty to having violated Virginia state law prohibiting a white person and a “colored” person from leaving the state to be married and returning to live as man and wife. -
Civil Rights Act
The act authorized the government to stop racial segregation in voting, employment and use of public things. -
Selma to Montgomery March – Bloody Sunday
This timeless picture documents the tense moment on March 7, 1965, when civil rights activists Hosea Williams and John Lewis marched peacefully across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers and sheriff's deputies from Alabama greeted them, and soon after, they began a bloody assault with horses, nightsticks, and tear gas. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed as a result of the nation's shock at the brutality depicted in these and other images. -
Black Panther Party founded
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X and urban uprisings, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality. -
Black Voter Registration Rates in the South Before and After the Voting Rights Act
This bar chart illustrates the significant increase in Black voter registration rates across several Southern states following the enactment of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. It highlights the effectiveness of the legislation in reducing barriers to voting for -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
After his death the government passed the fair housing act and made it unlawful for sellers, landlords, and financial institutions to refuse to rent, sell, or provide financing for a dwelling based on factors other than an individual’s financial resources. -
Life Expectancies of different ethnic groups after Birth
The graph gives a general life expectancy for the average gender and race for roughly 40 years -
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s all time home run record at 715
Henry "Hank" Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record and becoming Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader, a record he would hold until he was bested by Barry Bonds in 2007 -
Changes in economic mobility of Black Americans
The Graph goes over the mean household income percentile for African Americans in the US between 1978 and 1992 -
Guion “Guy” Bluford, Jr. becomes the first Black American to visit space
As part of the Challenger Space Shuttle crew. A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, he served as a flight engineer and mission specialist and returned to space three more times and was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame -
Vanessa Williams is crowned the first Black Miss America at age 20
New York’s Vanessa Williams is crowned the first Black Miss America at age 20. On July 23, 1984, she gives up her crown following Penthouse magazine’s announcement it would publish nude photos of her -
A bronze head-and-shoulders bust of Martin Luther King Jr., by sculptor John Wilson
Unveiled in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, on what would have been King's 57th birthday. It’s the first statue of a Black American to appear in the building. Four days later, on January 20, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed -
First National Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observed
“Four days later, on January 20, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is observed.” In 1986, the first national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was observed, honoring the civil rights leader's contributions to the movement. -
Engineer and physician Mae Jemison becomes the first Black woman to fly in space
Becomes the first Black woman to fly in space, serving as a science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour -
Toni Morrison is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black woman to earn the honor
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black woman to earn the honor -
Condoleezza Rice takes office as the first Black woman
Condoleezza Rice takes office as the first Black woman secretary of state, also serving under George W. Bush for four years. -
Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s all time home run record at 756
He broke this record signifying a new great in this sport. -
Barack Obama becomes first colored man to be president of the United States
Elected the 44th president of the United States, becoming the nation's first Black American to lead the nation -
Barack Obama Becomes 44th U.S. President, 2008
“On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; he is the first African American to hold that office.” On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold that office. -
Three Black Americans are fatally shot, spurring protests across the nation and the globe.
Ahmaud Arbery, is chased and gunned down in Georgia by a white father and son. Breonna Taylor, had been asleep in bed, is killed by Kentucky police during a botched no-knock raid. George Floyd, dies after being pinned to the ground with a knee pressed to his neck by a Minneapolis police officer.