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Civil Rights Timeline
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Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America"
Abolitionist Thomas Paine’s “African Slavery in America”, was published in the Pennsylvania Journal and the weekly advertiser. He criticizes slave trade. Proposed the emancipation of Africans slaves and the abolition of slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Makes it a crime to harbor an escaped slave and allows local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on them and anyone involved. -
Battle of The Fallen Timbers
The final battle of the Northwest Indian war, a war between Americans and native tribes to control Northwest territory. It resulted as a decisive victory for the Americans. -
Importation Act of 1807
Act that banned slave trade in the U.S. -
The Antelope
The US siezed a Venezuelan ship carrying 281 slaves called The Antelope. The supreme court ruled that some were set free and 39 were returned as slaves. -
Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
Vesey plotted a slave rebellion which was unsuccessful. 131 men were charged and 35 were hanged in conspiracy to kill their plantation owners. -
Cincinnati Riot
The Cincinnati Riots of 1829 were triggered by competition between Irish immigrants and African Americans for jobs in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA[1] but also were related to white fears given the rapid increases of free and fugitive blacks in the city during this decade, particularly in the preceding three years. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt
Slave riot led by literate slave Nat Turner. Over 50 white men and 200 slaves were killed in this revolt. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretta Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were denied seating because they were women. -
Black Codes
State legislature tightened black codes. A free slave could not carry a firearm, purchase slaves (except members of own family), liable to criminal penalties meted out to slaves such as whipping. They couldn't testify against whites, hold office, vote, or serve in the military. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Scott tried to sue his slave owner, but the court said he couldn’t because he wasn’t a citizen and sent him back to his owner. -
Dred Scott Decision
Ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens. -
Bleeding Kansas
Series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery. -
Bill Sketoe Lynching
Bill Sketoe was lynched for aiding pro-union renegades. He was hung beneath Alabama Highway 134. -
Emancipation Day
Also known as Juneteenth, it is the day when Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation that marked the end of slavery. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress passes act which allows citizenship on blacks and grants them equal rights. -
Reno Gang
Also known as the Reno Brothers Gang, were a group of criminals that performed robberies. The group was broken up when 10 of its members were lynched. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
This act made it illegal to deprive another person of the “full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyance, and other places of public amusement”. -
Benjamin and Mollie French Lynching
Two African Americans, Benjamin and Mollie French, were murdered by a white mob on account of the murder of another African American named Lake Jones. The Frenches killed Jones with arsenic poisoning, intending to steal his property. -
Prosser's Slave Rebellion
Prosser planned a slave rebellion to Richmond, Virginia. However, inside information was leaked and the plan was foiled. Prosser and 25 slaves were hanged. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress prohibits chinese immigration into the US for the next 10 years. -
Sarah Edith Westwood
who used three known aliases, was jailed for five years for crimes including unlawfully obtaining by a false pretence a bottle of sherry -
Edward Bowman
Stole a donkey worth 3 shillings in 1894, whichhe got six weeks of hard labour. -
Edward Hart
Edward Hart was caught steling ten shillings, for which he was forced to one months hard labour. -
Marie Thompson Lynching
Marie Thompson was murdered for killing a white farmer. She was attempting to break up a fight between The farmer and her son, and claims she stabbed him on self-defense. -
Lynching of the Walker Family
The Walker Family were lynched in Hickman, Fulton County, Alabama by about 50 night riders of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Alabama Coal Strike
15,000 coal miners went on strike. They killed the general manager of the coal mine operation. 16 coal miners were killed later on because of this incident. -
Thomas and Abram lynching
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were two African Americans who were hung in Marion, Indiana after being taken from jail and beaten by a white mob. They were thrown in jail that night on suspicion of murder. -
“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday
The song brings public recognition and attention to the horrors of lynching. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Segregation in public schools is now illegal -
Emmett Till's Death
Emmett Till is lynched, beaten, and shot after saying something to a white store manager in Mississippi. His death brings national attention to the lynching. -
Rosa Parks- Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man, this event marks the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Montgomery Bus Boycott Ends
Montgomery complies with Supreme Court ruling making segregation on buses illegal. -
Central High School
First 9 African American students atttend Central High School which starts conflict between the whites, the school, and the police. -
Freedom Riders- Birmingham, Alabama
Freedom Riders arrive in Birmingham, Alabama. Violence errupts which leads to serious injuries and multiple arrests. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
JFK signed the Equal Pay Act which now required women to be paid the same way and amount as men -
March on Washington
The march brought different civil rights groups and leaders together. The march was a success because it brought all people together and brought attention to people's struggles for civil rights. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb was placed under a staircase in the Baptist church. The explosion injured 23 people, and killed for black girls who were attending sunday school. -
Civil Rights Act 0f 1964
Outlawed public segregation and banned racial discrimination in hiring. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X is assassinated by members of the nation of islam. -
Bloody Sunday
State troopers attacked crowds/ marchers during the 54 mile march from Selma to the Capitol. The crowds were attacked with tear gas and clubs. -
Watts Riot
On August 11, 1965, an African-American motorist was arrested for drunk driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight -
Voting Rights Act
Direct federal intervention is now allowed to enable blacks the right to vote. -
Newark Riot
Angered at the repeated incidents of police brutality, Black residents in Newark saw a pair of white cops arrest a Black cab driver for improperly passing the cops. -
Detroit Riot
Police raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar on the city’s Near West Side, getting into confrontations with patrons and observers on the street. Things soon escalated into a full-fledged riot, lasting five days. -
Baltimore Riot
Six days of race riots erupted in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of the Civil Rights Movement-leader Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee- the blacks were outraged and riots broke out across the country. -
Michael Donald Lynching
A young black person named Michael Donald was murdered in Mobile, Alabama by two Ku Klux Klan members. This was one of the last lynchings that occured in the United States. -
Los Angeles Riot
Reaction to acquittal of policemen on trial in beating of Rodney King.
