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The U.S. abolished slavery
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enacted April 9, 1866, is a United States federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War.
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African Americans were given U.S. Citizenship
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He was the first person of color to serve in the United States Senate, and in the U.S. Congress overall
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It was a landmark for the United States Supreme Court decisions on the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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Was the first woman in the United States Congress, elected in Montana in 1916 and again in 1940.
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prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
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On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 integrating the military and mandating equality of treatment and opportunity. It also made it illegal, per military law, to make a racist remark.
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It was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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Social protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956
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A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957, The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.
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Nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended legally-sanctioned racial segregation in the United States and also passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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It was delivered by King on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States.
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Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
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as Malcolm X prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a disturbance broke out in the 400-person audience. As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance a man seated in the front row rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun.
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A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
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Brooke was the first African American popularly elected to the Senate and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993.
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On June 13, 1967, President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court saying that this was the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African American.
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At 6:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, while he was standing on the motel's second floor balcony, King was struck by a single .30 bullet fired from a Remington 760 Gamemaster. Shortly after the shot was fired, witnesses saw James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel where he was renting a room.
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Obama was the 44th and current President of the United States, in office since 2009. He is the first African American to hold the office.
