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Black American Equality Struggle
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Abolishing Slavery
Slavery abolished in the District of Columbia. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia -- an important step on the road for freedom for all African-Americans. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html -
Homestead Act
An act passed by republican congress to grant land to the ex-slaves. -
Emancipation Proclamation
In U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America. -
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers
On July 18, the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, the first officially recognized all-black military unit in the Union army, assaults Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina in an unsuccessful effort to take the fortification. http://www.54thmass.org/regimentalhistory.html -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, legally freeing slaves in areas of the South in rebellion -
Aberham Lincoln Relection for President
1864 Presidential ElectionIn the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This act granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the U.S. -
KKK Rises
This is the year the KluKluxKlan was created. A racist group against blacks and other minorities. -
Govenment Aid
progressive social workers and industrial reformers introduced new ideas about social survey research, equitable access to social resources, and rights of social citizenship into the debates on social provision -
Plessy v. Ferguson(Jim Crow Laws)
A court case that ended with the "Seperate but equal" idea. Telling America that segregation is right. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was President #32. He was a war-time president. His presidency was filled with WWII. He was the only president to serve 4 consecutive terms. He was related to Theodore Roosevelt. -
Carl Henry Eisenhardt
Great Grandpa. -
Larina Rumff
Great Grandma. -
Allen Elmer James
Keirk's Great Granpa. -
Evelyn G Brougham
Keirk's Great Grandma -
Elfrieda Boos
Great Grandma. -
Alfred Friedrich Boos
Great Grandpa, Nazi soldier. -
Great Flood of 1927
Flood of 1927The great flood of 1927 happened when the Mississippi River flooded and caused more than $400,000,000 in damage. There were between 250 and 500 flood related deaths. 10,000 square miles in Louisiana went underwater. -
Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana
Huey was the governor of louisiana for 4 years. He quit the job to become a senator from louisiana. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression undercut many of these gains. By 1939 blacks constituted 40 percent of relief rolls, and half of all black families relied on some government aid for subsistence. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/27.html -
New Deal Program
Most New Deal programs discriminated against blacks. The NRA, for example, not only offered whites the first crack at jobs, but authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks. The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) refused to guarantee mortgages for blacks who tried to buy in white neighborhoods, and the CCC maintained segregated camps. Furthermore, the Social Security Act excluded those job categories blacks traditionally filled. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display -
Huey P. Long, Senator
He became a senator the same day he quit the governor job, -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Administration forced afircan americans off their land.This idea of supporting farmers by limiting supply has also produced controversy. Some critics point out that only seven of the hundreds or thousands of different crops grown by farmers are eligible for payments. No livestock producers are included. http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_11.html -
Huey P. Long, Assassination-1935
Huey P. Long was assassinated on September 10, 1935. He was still a senator when he was killed. -
Gerald Chrivia
My grandfather that I have only met once in my life. -
Harry S. Truman
President #33. He was elected in April of 1945 and held the office until January 20, 1953. He was a soldier in WWI. -
Constance Faith Heythaler
Keirk's Grandma -
Roger Jon Eisenhardt
My grandfather. -
Executive Order 9981
This Order desegregated the U.S. military. Harry S. Truman was the man that signed this Executive Order and put it into effect shortly after WWII. -
Heidi Renatta Boos
My grandmother.
