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Missouri Compromise
in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise in 1820 -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was the girl that escaped from slavery on sep 1 , 1850 . -
Plessy v. Ferguson
On June 7, 1892, 30 year old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the White car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but in Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the Colored car. -
Jackie Robinson
Was the first African Amercain to become a famouse baseball player -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till , a 14 year old boy was in Mississippi when he was snatched from his great uncles house then he was beaten, shot in the head then thrown in Tallahtchie river. His body was found three days later. Ostensibly, the murderers killed Till because he whistled at a white woman. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
Loving vs Vigina
On 1958, Mildred Jeter and her new husband, Richard Loving, returned to their home in Caroline County, Virginia. The newlyweds had recently taken their vows in nearby Washington, D.C. and were happy to begin their new life together as married couple . Mildred was African American and her husband Richard was Caucasian. Four months into their marriage they were indicted by a grand jury The following January, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amenndment to the United States Constintion prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his/her skin or race. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1995 Rosa Parks a 45 year old Afercian woman sat near the middle of the bus soon as all the seats were filled on a bus a white man Rosa seat and she refused to give it up . Later she got arrested and convicted of vilotion of the laws segreation. -
I have a dream
I have a deam speach is about is about American Civil rights Martain Luther King made a speach in front of thousands of people which freed millions of slaves in 1863. He got shot right after the speach
