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1956 BCE
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks is arrested for violating segretation laws when she refuses to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery. Alabama Black civil rights activist, led by Martin Luther King, boycott all city buses in protest. After one year the laws are abolished -
1939 BCE
Billie Holliday sing "Strange Fruit"
The great jazz and blues singer, records strange fruit about blacks being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in the Southerm states -
1920 BCE
Jazz and Blues
Jazz and blues become popular and musicians such as Louis Armostrong and Dake Ellington are famous -
1890 BCE
Segretation Laws
Segretation laws are introduced in Southem states. Black are segregated from whites on public transport and in public places -
Period: 1868 BCE to 1875 BCE
1868-1875
Many amendements (cahnges) are made to the cosntitution to give civil rights to African-Americans -
Period: 1861 BCE to 1865 BCE
Civil War. Slavery is abolished
Civil war breaks out between the Confederate Southem states.In 1865 the Union wins and slavery is abolished -
1852 BCE
The Underground Railsway organisation
The Underground Railsway is an anti-slavery organisation that helps slaves who have escaped to cross the border into Canada -
1852 BCE
First Novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin', by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is the first anti-slavery novel -
1777 BCE
Vermont
Vermont is the first state to abolish slavery -
1775 BCE
Pennsylvanian Society
The pennyslvanian society for abolition of SLAVERY is the first american organisation to fight against slavery its president is Benjamin Frenklin -
1662 BCE
Anthony Johnoson
becomes the firs free African-American -
1619 BCE
The First Slaves
are brought to America from Angola.Most slaves work on the large tabacco ,sugar,cotton
