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Slaves Arrive in America
First African slaves arrive in American Colonies -
Every American Colony had slaves
Every colony in the US had slaves from Africa -
The Stono Rebellion
Slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising -
Slave Importing Banned
The American government banned slaves from Africa. -
Liberator
A newspaper who's anti slavery was published and helped with the movement to ban slavery -
Civil War and Emancipation
The emancipation cause the freeing of 3 million slaves in the civil war. -
Seperate but Equal
Legislation was introduced (Laws)in the southern states which eventuated in separate schools for blacks and whites, “persons of colour” were required to be separate from whites in railroad cars, hotels, theatres, restaurants, hairdressing salons and other establishments -
NAACP Founded
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was founded to help demand civil rights for black people. -
African Americans in WW2
Many African Americans were ready to fight for America in WW2, more than 3 million African Americans would register in the war with around 500,000 fighting overseas. -
Jackie Robinson
By 1900, the unwritten colour line barring blacks from white teams in professional baseball was strictly enforced. Jackie Robinson, a sharecropper’s son from Georgia, joined the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1945, after a stint in the U.S. Army (he earned an honourable discharge after facing a court-martial for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus) -
Brown V Board of Education
When the Supreme court overturned a law that uses racial segregation in Public Schools and deemed that it violated the 14th Amendment that protects equal law for everyone in the country. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, an African–American woman named Rosa Parks was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Parks refused and was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, which stated that blacks sit in the back of public buses and give up their seats for white riders if the front seats were full. Parks, a 42–year–old seamstress, was also the secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. -
Central High School Integrated
In the state capital of Little Rock, Central High School was integrated. -
Core and Freedom Rides
Founded in 1942 by the civil rights leader James Farmer, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sought to end discrimination and improve race relations through direct action. In its early years, CORE staged a sit–in at a Chicago coffee shop (a precursor to the successful sit–in movement of 1960) and organized a “Journey of Reconciliation,” in which a group of blacks and whites rode together on a bus through the upper South in 1947, a year after the U.S. -
Birmingham Church Bombed
In mid-September, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama during Sunday services; four young African-American girls were killed in the explosion. The church bombing was the third in 11 days, after the federal government had ordered the integration of Alabama’s school system. -
I have a dream
The last leader to appear was the Baptist preacher Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke eloquently of the struggle facing black Americans and the need for continued action and nonviolent resistance. “I have a dream,” King intoned, expressing his faith that one day whites and blacks would stand together as equals, and there would be harmony between the races." -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thanks to the campaign of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had begun to gain serious momentum in the United States by 1960. That year, John F. Kennedy made passage of new civil rights legislation part of his presidential campaign platform; he won more than 70 percent of the African-American vote. -
Freedom Summer and the”Mississippi Burning” Murders
The summer had barely begun, however, when three volunteers—Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black Mississippian—disappeared on their way back from investigating the burning of an African–American church by the Ku Klux Klan. After a massive FBI investigation (code–named “Mississippi Burning”) their bodies were discovered on August 4 buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, in Neshoba County, Mississippi. -
Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed in August 1965. The Voting Rights Act sought to overcome the legal barriers that still existed at the state and local level preventing blacks from exercising the right to vote given them by the 15th Amendment.
