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Nat Turner Rebellion
A slave by the name Nat Turner led a slave rebellion. Turner and a group of slaves killed 60 white men, women, and children. He was caught with 16 others and executed. Other black were killed to warn others. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a salve. He was taken to the free state Illinois by his master. Scotts master took him back to Missouri, a slavve state. After his master died he sued for his freedom. The court said that he was to remain a slave. -
Emancipation Proclomation
Freed all the slaves in the rebellious states. -
Tuskegee Institute Opens
First Blacks School -
Norris vs. Alabama
Case letting blacks on a jury. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier
Jackie Robinson was recruited to the Dodgers. He played with whites in major league baseball. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The case in which seperate public schools for blacks and whites became unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till Was 14 years old when he died. He was murded for flirting with a white woman four day before. The men that killed him made him carry a 75 pound cotton gin fan to a river. They beat him, gouged out his eyes, shot him in the head, and last tied him to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire and threw him in the river. -
Rosa Parks Sits on the Bus
Rosa Parks was an African American woman. She was sitting in a bus seat and refused to give her seat up to a white man that got on the bus. She was arrested. -
Little Rock 9
Nine African American students broke through the barrier and became the first balck students to attend Little Rock High School. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. Wrote them. It was his defense on the civil rights. -
March on Washington
A rally to shed some light on African Americans struggles for jobs and freedoms. -
Civil Rights Act
The act that ended segrigation in publics schools. Also ended dicriminaton in employment for race, religon, sex, color, or national origin. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom X was an African American nationalist and religous leader. He was Assassinated by rival black Muslims. -
Election of Barack Obama
Election of the first black president.
