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Article 1 Section 9
The United States outlawed the importing of new slaves, The U.S. Constitution, Article 1 Section 9 was written to protect the slave trade for twenty years after ratification. -
Nathaniel "Nat" Turner
Nathaniel "Nat" Turner was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, that resulted in 56 deaths among their victims, the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the antebellum southern United States. -
Harriet Tubman
The American Anti-Slavery Society was established. Harriet Tubman is perhaps the best known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors". -
Women's rights Convention
The first Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of discussion and debate, 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which outlines grievances and sets the agenda for the women's rights movement. A set of 12 resolutions is adopted calling for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott Decision was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the Constitution and could NEVER be U.S. citizens. -
Civil War Ended
he Civil War ends & The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, is ratified. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment, banning racial discrimination in voting, is ratified. -
Women's Right to Vote
Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote.
women's suffrage
1896 - Utah and Idaho
1910 - Washington State
1911 - California
1912 - Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona
1913 - Alaska and Illinois
1914 - Montana and Nevada
1917 - New York
1918 - Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma -
The Great Migration
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s also The Great Migration brought hundreds of thousands of African Americans to cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and New York City. -
President Truman signs Exectuive order 9981
It was the policy of the president that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regards to Race,Religion, Color, or national origin. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of, unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling leads the way for large-scale desegregation. This decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." It is a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall. -
14 year old Emmett Till
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahassee River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause cerebral of the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community creates a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. As newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Martin Luther King, Jr., is instrumental in leading the boycott. -
Little Rock
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Normally all-white Central High School learns that integration is usually easier said than done. Nine black students were blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." -
4 Black Students
Four black students from NC A&Tl College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Even Though they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. This event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. a couple of months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. -
Freedom Riders
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations. Several of the groups of "freedom riders," are attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program, sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), involves more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white. -
R.I.P Martin
Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. Escaped convict and committed racist James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime. -
Rodney King
The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King. -
University Of Michigan Law School
Supreme Court upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body." -
Reopened Case
Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions. -
Ricci Vs. DeStefano
In the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, 18 plaintiff 17 white people and one Hispanic argued that results of the 2003 lieutenant and captain exams were thrown out when it was determined that few minority firefighters qualified for advancement. -
Shelby Vs Holder
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which established a formula for Congress to use when determining if a state or voting jurisdiction requires prior approval before changing its voting laws. -
Ferguson MO.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into police practices in Ferguson, Mo., where a Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer on Aug. 9. The Justice Department investigation is in addition to the FBI's civil rights inquiry. -
Civil Rights Violations
After the release of a Justice Department report in March documenting civil rights violations by the Ferguson Police Department, Ferguson officials reach a deal with the Justice Department, avoiding a civil rights lawsuit. The agreement will necessitate the levying of new taxes to pay for the planned improvements and require local vote.
