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Dred Scott v. Sanford (Denial of Basic Rights to Blacks)
(This event took plave over a serious of time, because Supreme Court Cases take longer than one day to be completed.)
This case denied blacks basic human rights, no matter whether they were inslaved, or they were free people. This case denied basic rights as well as black citizenship. -
Harper's Ferry Raid
John Brown conducted a raid at Harper's Ferry, Virgina. This raid was served to free and arm slaves. The efforts of this raid failed, and John Brown was executed. The attached picture is a drawing that depicts the execution of John Brown. -
Lincoln's Election
Lincoln's election in 1860 lead to Southern states seceding. This also began the start of the civil war between the free and the inslaved states. -
Civil War Begins
The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The war ended in the Spring of 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, ending the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued a premliminary proclamation that ordered the amancipation of all slaves in or part of a state on September 22 1862. This did not cause the end of the rebellion against the union until January 1st 1863. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment passed, abolishing slavery throughout the United States. This amendment was passed on January 31st of 1865, and ratified on December 6th. All slavery, or involuntary servitude, unless used as a criminal punishment, was to exist in the United States. The picture shows a black person's hand releasing itself from a chain of slavery or involuntary servitude of a white person's hand. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment extended the liberties and rights that had been previously granted by the Bill of Rights to former slaves. -
Klu Klux Klan
The Klu Klux Klan evolved into a hooded terrorist organization known to its members as "The Invisible Empire of the South." An early influential Klan "Grand Wizard" is Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was a Confederate general during the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan first appeared in Arkansas in April 1868, just a month after African Americans voted in Arkansas elections for the first time. -
15th Amendment
The passing of the 15th amendment granted black men the right to vote by saying that no citizen could be denied the right to vote by race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court "separate but equal" decision in Plessy v. Ferguson approved laws requiring racial segregation, as long as those laws did not allow for separate accommodations and facilities for blacks that were inferior to those for whites. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The NAACP was formed in 1909 and originally concentrated on disestablishing the Jim Crow statutes that legalized racial segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began on December 5th when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. This boycott lasts 381 days and ends with the desegregation of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system on December 21, 1956.
