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Thomas Paine's African Slavery in America.
Abolitionist Thomas Paine's African Slavery in America published in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser. -
Scott v. United States
Dred Scott takes the slave freedom battle to court. He fails because he is not a citizen because he is black. -
Civil War
The Civil War begins. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln says one of his most famous speeches of all time. He also declares all slaves free and anyone who owns slaves is doing so illegally. -
Lincoln Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. -
14th Amendment
Amendment that granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,”. -
Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act
This act “guarantees” equal rights for African Americans in restaurants, inns, public transportation, and juries. -
Scott Act
Chinese American workers were not allowed to leave America unless they had family in China. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Case that started segregation under the seperate but equal clause. Start of Jim Crow. -
Up From Slavery
Booker T Washington writes Up From Slavery -
Mexican Ambassador Protest
A mexican ambassador protests the mistreatment and lynchings of mexicans in America. -
First Woman in Congress
Jeanette Rankin is the first woman to be a member of Congress. -
19th Amendment
Women gain right to vote. -
Rodney King Riots Start
Rodney King was a victim of police brutality that was caught on tape. The 4 cops on tape were acquitted, this caused thousands of people in the LA area to riot. -
Roosevelt Bans Discrimination in Defense Contracts.
President Roosevelt issued executive order banning discrimination against minorities in defense contracts. -
First African American to be in the MLB
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play Major League Baseball -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman signs executive order 9981 which states that “... there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin” , ending segregation in the army -
Brown v Board of Education
Segregation is school is deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. -
School Discrimination
23 black children are prevented from attending all-white elementary schools, defying the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling -
Segregation ends in Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware school board decides to end segregation -
Emmett Till was Killed
A 14yr old African American boy was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman -
Rosa Parks does not give her seat up
Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat up to a white man, this was the catalyst that caused the montgomery bus boycott -
The montgomery bus boycott ends
After over a year the montgomery bus boycotts finally end with buses being fully integrated -
MLK jr is arrested
Martin Luther King Jr is arrested for protesting in the city without a permit -
The Little Rock Nine
Little Rock, Ark., Central High School meet with legal resistance and violence; Gov. Orval Faubus predicts "blood will run in the streets" if African Americans push effort to integrate. On Sept. 24, federal troops mobilize to protect the nine African American students at the high school from white mobs trying to block the school's integration. -
Freedom Rides begin
Volunteers would ride on public transportation to test the laws that made discrimination on interstate travel illegal. These riders were sometimes attacked. -
A&M demonstrators attacked
Police attack Florida A&M anti-segregation demonstrators with tear gas; arrest 257 -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail is completed -
I Have A Dream Speech
MLK jr does his famous “I have a dream speech, -
Riots erupt at over James Meredith's enrollment at the University of Mississippi.
James Meredith a black civil rights figure enrolled at the university of mississippi causing riots -
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Freedom Summer
The SNCC organizes organizes a voter drive in mississippi known as the freedom summer -
MLK Jr Gets a nobel peace prize
Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 by the Nobel Foundation. -
Malcolm X is assassinated
Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem -
MLK jr leads a march
MLK jr leads a march to the pettus bridge -
25,000 more people join the selma marchers
25,000 more people join the selma marchers at the montgomery city limits -
Race Riots occur in LA
Race Riots occur in LA -
Black Panther
Black Panther Militants are founded -
Birth of Black Power (Term)
The term Black Power is used for the first time -
Loving vs Virginia
In Loving vs Virginia ban on interracial marriages becomes illegal for remaining 12 states that held the ban -
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice appointed to the Supreme Court on September 1
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice appointed to the Supreme Court on September 1 -
Cal Stokes becomes mayor of ohio
Cal stokes becomes the first african american mayor of a city -
MLK Assassination
In early April 1968, U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Police raid on a Gay Bar.
A June 27 police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar catering to homosexuals, results in two nights of rioting and is the symbolic beginning of the gay rights movement. The event is commemorated each year by Gay Pride demonstrations across the nation. -
Swann vs Charlotte Mcklenburg Board of Education
In Swann vs Charlotte Mcklenburg Board of Education, the supreme court upholds the practice of busing as means of achieving racial integration -
Race Admittance Held
The supreme court upholds The University of Michigan Law School’s policy that race can be a determining factor in selecting admittance. (5-4) -
RIP Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks dies at 92 -
Ricci vs DeStefano
Ricci vs DeStefano strikes rules 5-4 in favor of firefighters suing in claim to be victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ Advancement exams were thrown out when it was found that few minority firefighters qualified for advancement. -
Shelby County vs Holder
Shelby County vs Holder strikes down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act in a 5-4 supreme court decision -
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter activist group formed -
Korematsu v. United States
Supreme Court rules internment camps are necessary for war
