Black American Dream

By les pezos

  • First Slave 1619

    First Slave 1619
    One year before the arrival of the first European immigrants boarded
    of the Mayflower, British settlers settled in Virginia acquire their
    first African slaves.

  • Creation of the machine to shuck the cotton 1793

    Creation of the machine to shuck the cotton 1793
    Invention of the cotton peeling machine, which contributes directly to
    the rise of slavery in the United States.

  • Abolition of the slave trade 1808

    Abolition of the slave trade 1808
    Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Smuggling of slaves
    continues for several years

  • the first American black newspaper 1827

    the first American black newspaper 1827
    The freedom's journal, the first American black newspaper, appears in New York.

  • "Blacks are not American citizens and have no right that whites are bound to respect." 1857

    "Blacks are not American citizens and have no right that whites are bound to respect." 1857
    Dred Scott v. Sandford: the Supreme Court States that "Blacks are not American citizens and have no right that whites are bound to respect."

  • the right to vote is granted to black men in the southern States 1866

    the right to vote is granted to black men in the southern States 1866
    Period known as "reconstruction": the right to vote is granted to black men in the southern States; several hundred are elected in the State assemblies and Congress. Northern troops occupy the South to enforce new constitutional amendments

  • Founding of the Ku Klux Klan 1866

    Founding of the Ku Klux Klan 1866
    Founding of the Ku Klux Klan by veterans of the southern army in Pulaski, Tennessee. Their goal: to assert white supremacy, particularly in opposition to the reconstruction

  • Congress votes the first civil rights law 1875

    Congress votes the first civil rights law 1875
    Congress votes the first civil rights law: "all persons under the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment" of all public places, this principle "applying to all citizens irrespective of their race or co even if they have experienced servitude "

  • The Supreme Court nullified the Civil Rights Act of 1875

    The Supreme Court nullified the Civil Rights Act of 1875
    The Supreme Court nullified the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by declaring it unconstitutional.

  • Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion 1938

    Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion 1938
    Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion, beats the German Max Schmelling at Yankee Stadium in New York.

  • Segregation disappears 1947

    Segregation disappears 1947
    Segregation disappears... in the professional baseball with the integration of Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers.