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Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner Rebellion, was about a slave who him and 16 of his men killed 55-65 white people, it stopped within a few days but Turner survived. -
Dred Scott Decision
The man sued for his wife, daughter and him to be free, and he lost. U.S. didn't think that blacks or slaves should be citizens of the U.S -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and ordered the Army to treat as free all those enslaved in ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. -
The Tuskegee Institute Opens
The Tuskegee Insitute was a hstorically black university located in Tuskegee, Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington, an African-American educator -
Norris Vs. Alabama
A U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned "the Scottsboro case," in which several black men were falsely charged with raping a white woman. The Court held that organized exclusion of blacks from jury panels (the pool of potential jurors) was a violation of a defendants' constitutional right to due process. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
Brown Vs. Board of Education was case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier before he was killed. -
Rosa Park Sits On Bus
Rosa Parks was known as "the first civil rights lady." Back in the days when whites hated blacks, they had a bus where whites sat in front and blacks sat in the back, well Rosa sat in the front in refused to move. Thats why this is important -
Little Rock 9
The LIttle Rock 9 were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing 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. -
Letter from Birmingam Jail
It was an open letter. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s. -
March on Washington / " I have a dream speech"
A speech about ending racism in the United States -
Civil Rights Act
a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women -
Assassination of Malcom X
The Assassination of Malcom X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem -
Election of Barack Obama
The "Election of Barack Obama, is where people of the United States vote to decide who becomes president and Barack Obama won.