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Jan 1 1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation
1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the enslaved in the
rebellious Confederate states. -
Jan 31 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment is passed abolishing slavery in the United States. -
Jul 9 1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment
1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing all African-Americans the rights of full U.S. citizens. -
Jul 9 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment
1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment is passed guaranteeing the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race. -
1890s - Jim Crow laws
1890s - Jim Crow laws become common in many southern states segregating blacks from whites. -
May 18th 1896 - The Supreme Court
1896 - The Supreme Court rules that segregation is legal in the Plessy v. Ferguson case using the "separate but
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Feb 12 1909 - The NAACP
1909 - The NAACP is founded by African-American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells. -
Apr 12 1948 President Harry S Truman
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May 17 1954 Brown v. Board Education
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Dec 5 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Aug 4 1957
Arkansas Nine -
May 4 1961
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Jul 28 1963 The March on Washington
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1963 The Birmingham Campaign
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Aug 4 1965 The Voting Rights Act
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Jul 2 1964 The Civil Rights Act
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Jan 30 1965 Bloody Sunday
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Apr 4 1968 Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated
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Aug 30 1967 Thurgood Marshall
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Jan 20 2009 Barack Obama
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