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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri -
Escape Of Harriet Tubman
Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849. Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson, who owned a large plantation in an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County; it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well. Because the slaves were hired out to another household, Eliza Brodess probably did not recognize their absence as an escape attempt for some time -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment is the third of the Reconstruction Amendments. This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using a citizen's race (this applies to all races), color or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American that was murdered after he supposedly flirted with a 21 year old white woman. The woman’s husband and half-brother kidnapped Emmett and transported him to a barn. Upon arriving at the barn they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, they then threw him in a river with a 70lb cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. -
Rosa Parks Being Arrested
On Dec 1, 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat in the African American section to a white man when the white section was full. This refusal caused Rosa to get arrested for disorderly conduct. A few days after the arrest the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. -
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott began when Rosa Parks was arrested and no African Americans rode busses for 381 days, a huge sacrifice. This caused the removal of the sections, and added African American bus drivers. -
Little Rock 9
Little Rock 9 was a African American group of students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. This caused the Little Rock Crisis, in which 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 -
"I Have A Dream" Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. The speech, delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
MLK Assassination
On April 4, 1998 at 6:01PM James Earl Ray of Tennessee Assassinated Martian Luther King Junior with a fatal shot from a sniper rifle. King was rushed to a hospital where at 7:05PM he was pronounced dead. James was caught in London, at Heathrow Airport. He was taken back to the states and given 99 years in prison.
