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Enslavment of African Men, Woman and Children
The slave trade has began. They captured Africans to to work for the Amercians. -
Congress Bans importation of from Africa
Slaves were sent to the USA from Africa often against their will. This was stopped in 1808. -
Were it all starts
The civil rights movement started in the year 1865. -
Jim Crow Law
State laws, aimed to segregate between whites and blacks in the use of transport and public facilities and in the outlawing of marriage between the two racial groups. -
No Lynching
It's the first year with NO lynching since 1881 -
Brown V. Board
A state law says that Black and White schools aren't equal. People said that white schools have better teachers and better educations. Black schools have bad teachers and education. -
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The Montgomery Bus Boy Boycott
The bust boycott startes when Rosa Parks got arrested for sitting in the white peoples seats on a bus -
Little Rock Central High School desegregated
After Little Rock school board votes to integrate schools, National Guard troops prevent black children from attending school. 1000 federal troopers are needed to escort black students and preserve peace. -
Freedom riders disagree segregation
Black and white people take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many of them are greeted by getting beat. -
Lynchings claim hundreds of lives
Over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919 with 38 killed in Chicago. 70 blacks, including 10 veterans, are lynched in the South. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
He was a peaceful leader for the advansiment of civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated when he was 39 by James Earl Ray.
