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Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
Was a executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves. -
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Reconstruction
The Reconstruction period lasted from about 1865-1877. During the Reconstruction period hundreds of thousands of Black men risk their lives and property to vote, and many are elected to office. In fact, for a period in the late 1860s more African-Americans are registered to vote than whites in the states of the former Confederacy.History-World -
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Literacy tests
Literacy tests, along with poll taxes and extra-legal intimidation,[1] were used to deny suffrage to African-Americans. The first formal voter literacy tests were introduced in 1890. Whites were exempted from the literacy test if they could meet alternate requirements that, in practice, excluded blacks. These included demonstrating political competence in person or showing descent from someone who was eligible to vote before
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14th Amendement
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The 15th amendment
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Octavius V. Catto
Octavius V. Catto
National Equal Rights League leader, is assassinated by a white man attempting to discourage black voting in a key Philadelphia election. Catto's funeral is the largest public funeral in Philadelphia since Lincoln's and his death is mourned in black communities throughout the country. -
Civil Rights Act 1875
civil rights act of 1875
It isessential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political; and it being the appropriate object of legislation to enact great fundamental pri -
Lynching
demonstrations against lynching
The efforts of black leaders in Atlanta to hold on to their power and black voting rights during this early time ultimately proved unsuccessful. African American delegates staged a successful coup to take over the Republican Party at the state convention in 1880. The victory was short-lived because of the resurgence of white supremacy and the Democratic Party had failed. -
Early Collective Self-Defense
Early Collective Self-Defense
In 1881 a group of angry black women and men formed a protective circle around John Burke as police attempted to arrest the young black man for pushing a white woman off the sidewalk. In desperation, Burke's mother Gertrude took a gun from a nearby police stockpile and fired it at one of the officers. After it failed to fire, a crowd of more than 200 trailed the officers. -
African American Legislature
black legislature
The legislature founds the first public college for African Americans, Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, as well as the first mental hospital for African Americans, both near Petersburg, Virginia. -
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Huey Long
He was an important figue in the book. He tried to help poor black people but giving them books to read. -
Jessie Keyes
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Norris Wright Cuney
Norris Wright Cuney
Norris Wright Cuney becomes the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, the most powerful role held by any African American in the South during the 19th century. -
State Normal School for Colored Students
State Normal School for Colored Students
October 3 – The State Normal School for Colored Students, which would become Florida A&M University, is founded. -
W.E.B. DuBois
The Philadelphia Negro
W.E.B. DuBois begins his social analysis of the black conditions in Philadelphia. Published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro becomes a lightening rod for black activism in Philadelphia and other communities around the country. -
Seperate but equal
The "seperate but equal" legal doctrine was a United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group's public facilities was to remain equal
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Joe died
He died by being drug by a horse. -
Elizabeth Wittenberg
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George Henry White
George White
George Henry White (North Carolina Republican), the last black to serve in the House of Representatives in the 19th Century, leaves office. -
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Niagara Movement
Niagra Movement
the first significant black organized protest movement of the twentieth century, is launched in Buffalo, NY. It is an attempt by a small group of radicals to challenge Booker T. Washington's ideals of accommodation. This militant group was led by W.E.B. DuBois and William M. Trotter. -
NAACP
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". -
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson
Jackie Robinson
(January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. -
Edgar Cusick
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Ray Livinghouse
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Jerri Burns
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods. King has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.King was assasinate in Tennesse, on April 4, 1968, -
African American Odyssey
African American Odyssey
William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony, written in 1930 and first performed in 1931, epitomizes the African American composer's right to be heard in the concert hall. It is one of several symphonies written by black composers in the early 1930s, including the Florence Price E. Minor Symphony, the Negro Folk Symphony by William Levi Dawson, and the Harlem Symphony by James P. Johnson. -
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Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey (1881-1965) was involved with baseball in a variety of capacities -- as a player, coach, manager, and owner -- for more than sixty years. His Hall of Fame plaque mentions both his creation of baseball's farm system in the 1920s and his signing of Jackie Robinson. Rickey's interest in integrating baseball began early in his career. -
Cathy Humphrey
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Marilyn Livinghouse
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Rich Livinghouse
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Nancy Burns
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Brown Vs Board of Education
Brown V.s Board Of Education
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are i -
Roas Parks
Roas Parks
Roas Parks was a black civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights",On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. She as arrested. After this blacks in Montgomery made up the bus boycott who was led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional.
