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Missouri Compromise
Allowed Maine to join legislation as a free state, but Missouri entered as a slave state -
The Wilmot Proviso
introduced by Democratic representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, attempts to ban slavery in territory gained in the Mexican War. The proviso is blocked by Southerners, but continues to enflame the debate over slavery -
Harriet Tubman
becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad. -
Compromise of 1850
-admitted California as a free state
-stricter fugitive slave laws
-Texas renounced claims of New Mexico
-no slavery in D.C.
-Utah and New Mexico put slavery into popular sovereignty -
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It becomes one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery sentiments. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide slave or free state by popular sovereignty -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott sues US for freedom -
Civil war and emancipation
11 southern states seceding from the union and forming the confederate states of america -
The Emancipation Proclamation
When Lincoln ended slavery -
Fifteenth Amendment
the Constitution is ratified, giving blacks the right to vote. -
Colfax Massacre
When 150 black men where massacred by whites -
Cruikshank Case
Controversial court case where Louisiana mob killed African Americans and ruled that the state couldn’t protect from actions of citizens only acts of the state. -
“Seperate but equal”
And act to keep whites and blacks seperate but make sure they all have the same rights as each other -
NAACP founded
founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. Du Bois. For the next half century, it would serve as the country's most influential African-American civil rights organization, -
The Red Summer
Hundreds of deaths due to race riots. -
KKK Revived
KKK membership sky rockets and is revived in a sense. -
Harlem Renaissance
The spark of an African american renaissance that took place in Harlem NY -
Scottsboro Boys
Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women. Although the evidence was slim, the southern jury sentenced them to death. finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottsboro boys are freed; but five are sentenced to long prison terms. -
African americans in WWII
The time period where African americans were allowed to fight for our country. During WWI they were not allowed to fight in the wars -
Jackie Robinson
The first African american baseball player to play in the Major League Baseball association. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Brown v board
declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional -
Bus boycott
After rosa parks was arrested all African americans started a boycott to not take the buses to show whites a lesson. -
Emmett Till
14 year old boy made flirtatious remark towards white women which was against Jim Crow laws. Three days later two white men kidnapped Emmett and beat him and shot him to death then later discarding the body -
MArtin Luther King is arrested
jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. He writes "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience. -
Martin Luther King is assasinated
assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. April 4
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
