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The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.
Africans came to Virginia in 1619. They were brought by English privateers from a Spanish slave they had intercepted. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+first+African+slaves+arrive+in+Virginia.&rlz=1CAQZUX_enUS820&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4st_e5qHeAhVjnuAKHWV9BpIQ_AUICSgA&biw=1366&bih=618&dpr=1&safe=active&ssui=on -
Maryland tries to discourage white and black marriage.
Maryland was the first state to try to discourage by law the marriage of white women to black men. https://www.fs.fed.us/people/aasg/calendar/timeline.html -
The Quakers of Germantown, Pennsylvania, passed the first formal antislavery resolution.
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies. It was drafted by Francis Daniel Pastorius and signed by him and three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) on behalf of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Germantown_Quaker_Petition_Against_Slavery -
A slave insurrection occurred in New York City, resulting in the execution of 21 African Americans.
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the British Province of New York, of 23 enslaved Africans. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than three times that number of blacks, 70, were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Revolt_of_1712 -
Lucy Terry becomes the earliest known black poet.
Lucy Terry, an enslaved person in 1746, becomes the earliest known black American poet when she writes about the last American Indian attack on her village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Her poem, Bar's Fight, is not published until 1855.
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Slavery is made illegal.
Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory. The U.S Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808. https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history#AAH-1800 -
A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines.
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 for the slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history#AAH-1800 -
Dred Scott
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision to deny citizenship and constitutional rights to all black people, legally establishing the race as "subordinate, inferior beings -- whether slave or freedmen." https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yZYW2xu04HXtHijraRnKGe0CPo1rnLuqh4Hvbs4NMIo/edit#heading=h.9t9pzdicxvcd -
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. However, Southern states managed to revive slavery era codes creating unattainable prerequisites for blacks to live, work or participate in society. The following year, the First Civil Rights Act invalidated these "Black Codes," conferring the "rights of citizenship" on all black people. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yZYW2xu04HXtHijraRnKGe0CPo1rnLuqh4Hvbs4NMIo/edit#heading=h.9t9pzdicxvcd -
Howard University's law school becomes the country's first black law school.
Howard established the first black law school in the nation only two years after its founding and in 1872. Howard University has been labeled “the capstone of Negro education,” because of its central role in the African American educational experience. https://blackpast.org/aah/howard-university-1867 -
The 15th Amendment granted blacks the right to vote, including former slaves.
The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Despite the amendment, by the late 1870´s discriminatory practices were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fifteenth-amendment -
Lynching
John Heath's got hung from a telegraph pole in Arizona after being lynched. Lynching is the practice of murder by a group by extrajudicial action. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 1800s.
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This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. The court upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad carriages, ruling that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealt with political and not social equality. https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history#AAH-1800
