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No More Slave Trade
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PASSES A LAW FORBIDDING AMERICANS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SLAVE TRADE
At the time, the United States had a population of 4,000,000 slaves. -
Slaves Freed
On September 22nd, Abraham Lincoln created one of the greastest laws of all time. The law was that all slaves were to be freed by January 1st, 1863. -
W.E.B Du Bois
W.E.B Du Bois becomes the first African-American to ever get a PH.D at Harvard. -
School Segregation is Unconstitutional
This ruling dismisses the 1896 Supreme Court “separate but equal” ruling. Certain states are slow to enforce this ruling. -
A Brave Act
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.This brave act spurs the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott that lasts 381 days and is one of the most memorable moments of the early Civil Rights Movement. -
The First Act of Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction in America.
The act helps to protect every U.S. citizen’s right to vote and establishes a Civil Rights Commission whose duty is to investigate acts of discrimination and injustice. The Act also led to the creation of a Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice. -
Carol Mosley
Carol Moseley Braun is also the second African-American elected to the Senate since Reconstruction. She represents the state of Illinois where she grew up, went to school, and worked for years.
In 1994 she builds the Educational Infrastructure Act that aims to give money to those under-resourced schools and educational organizations that need it most. -
Barack Obama
Obama was elected as president. He was the first African American to be president in the United States of America, -
"I Have a Dream"
250,000 people march to the nation’s capital advocating civil rights and liberties. Martin is one of he greatest black mn in history for his dream of everyone being treated equal
