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Emancipation Proclamation
t proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion, applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time. -
Jim Crow Laws inacted
The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational an -
Rosa Parks
Birth of Rosa Parks. -
Jackie Robinson
He is the first black man to join the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Brown Vs. Board
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. Thurgood Marshall, who will later become the first African American justice on the Supreme Court, is the lead counsel for the black school children. -
Rosa sparks a movement
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth King is made the first president. -
Million Man March
Dr. King delivers the i have a dream speech -
Malcolm X Assaination
Malcolm X assainated -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Blacks given the right to vote. -
Thurgood Marshall
President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 30, 1967.[15] He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African American. President Johnson confidently predicted to one biographer, Doris Kearns Goodwin, that a lot of -
Assaination of Martin Luther King Jr.
at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony. The bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. Abernathy heard the shot from inside the motel room and ran to the balcony to find King on the floor. Jackson stated after the shooting that he cradled King's head as King lay on the balcony. -
Obama Elected
First president to break the color barrier.
