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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
As part of the compermise of 1850, congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which requires any federal offical to arrest anyone suspected of being a runawy slave. -
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Emancipation Proclamation 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation ''freed all the slaves.'' Lincoln declared that all slaves in the rebellious states should be free. ''shall be than, thenceforward, and forever free.'' It was a very important turning point in the war.'It cahanged the fight to perserve a Nation into a battle for human freedom.'' History channel Lincoln's Position on Slavery. -
The Battle of Fort Pillow
The Battle of Fort Pillow, which results in controversity about whether a masacre of surrendered African American troops was conducted or condoned. -
ku klux klan is formed
This society was completely against blacks. They went as far as to murder blacks. This society wanted to terriorize blacks. -
africans can't be excluded from juries
In Strauder V. West Virgina, the Supreme Court rules that African Americans could not be excluded from jurries. Before this event only white men were allowed to serve on a jurry but this was extermely unfair to the black population, espically when it concered them. -
Ida B. Wells publishes her pamphlet Southren Horrors: Lynch laws and its phases
Wells is the best known for leading a fight against lynching of blacks. After a close friend of Wells died along with two other black men at the hands of a lynch mob, The title to pamphlet Southren Horrors is mocking southren honnor. -
Plessy V. Fergusion
In this Supreme Court case it was passed that the segregation ''seprate but equal'' was constutational. This stemmed from an 1892 incident where a African American train passenger refused to sit in a Jim Crow Car, which was breaking the law. Plessy the African American's argument was that his constitutional rights were violated . -
National Nergo committeeis formed
It addresses the inequalities suffered by African Americans in the United States and calls for a guarantee of civil rights under the Constitution. Blacks during this time were denied many rights this committee tried to take these rights back. -
40,000 White Women Pledge Aganst Lynching
Jessie Danie Ames founded the Association of Southern Women's Signatures Aganist Lynching. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Restrictive legislation based on race continued after the Plessy ruling, its reasoning was not overturned until Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka. The Brown V. Boardof Education declared that seprate schools were unequal. This decision stop state sponsored segregation and jump started the American Civil Rights movement. -
Rosa Parks doesn't give up her seat
In Montgomery Alabama Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus, a violation of the city's racial segration laws. -
Inter-racial Marriage
Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in July 1958, in Virginia, for violating a state law that banned marriage between people of different races. This couple was like any other couple. The Loving's never set out to cange history or get involved in civil rights. The couple was banned from thier home in Virgina where their families lived and were forced to live in exile because they were an inter-racial couple. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act, was signed to become a law by President Lyndon Johnson. This law aimed to overcome legal blockades at the state and local levels that kept African Americans from voting. It was written in the 15th Amedment that they had the right to vote. -
Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act is a law that did not allow discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on a persons race, national origin, religion, and sex. This law was intended to farther inforce the pervention of descrimination against blacks. This law was passed shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
