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Slavery Comes to North America
Slavery spread across the American colonies after a British ship landed 20 Africans ashore at the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. During the 18th century just, between 6 and 7 million slaves africans were brought to the New World. -
Rise of the Cotton Industry
The rural South, in which slavery had gained the greatest impact in America, confronted an economic crisis in the years of the American Revolution. Tobacco, the most lucrative crop at the moment, had destroyed the lands, while rice and indigo failed to generate much money. As a result, the costof slave people were falling, and the future of slavery seemed to be in doubt. -
Fugitive Slave Acts
The first Fugitive Slave Act, approved by Congress in 1793, gave local governments the authority to arrest and return escaped slaves back to their owners, and also impose fines on anyone who helped them escape. -
Nat Turner’s Revolt
The event scared Slave owners, putting an end to the nation organized abolitionist movement, resulting in even stronger laws against slaves in the south, and furthering the deep divide between slave owners and available (an anti-slavery political party whos slogan was "free soil, free expression, free labor and free people") that would result to the Civil War -
Civil War and Emancipation.
The End of slavery liberated approximately 3 million enslaved people in the rebel states, losing the Confederacy of the most of its labor force and influencing world public opinion strongly in favour of the Goverment. By the time war ended in 1856, there were 186.000 Colored troops in the Union Army , over 38.000 of them dying. The war took the lives of 620.000 people (out of a nation of 35 million), making it the biggest conflict in American history. -
Constitutional Amendments 13-14-15
Thirteenth Amendment Section 1 "Neither slavery and modern slavery shall exist inside of the United States, which is in no country subject to their jurisdicition, except as a punishment for the crime for which the party shall have already been legally guilty". Fifteennth Amedment Section 1 States that the right to vote of citizens of the United States should not be denied or restricted by the United States or any State on the based on race, color, or previous servitude. -
The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was created just after the end of the Civil War to suppress African American rights and freedoms. It is still an active domestic terrorist organization after 150 years. -
Separate But Equal
The "Jim Crow" laws were the first segregation legislation. States started implementing actions such as voting laws, education tests, all-white primary elections, federal crime socioeconomic disadvantages laws, grandfather provisions, scams, and intimidation to maintain Black People form voting after the 15th Amedment was passed in 1870, restricting states from denying citizens the right to vote due to race. -
NAACP Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which was formed by renowned Black educator W.E.B. Du Boisin, is a civil rights group (NAACP). The NAACP's stated goals included the abolition of all forms of forced segregation, the implementation of the 14th and 15th Amendments, equal educational opportunities for black and white students, and total political participation of all Black men. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Central High School integrated-
Although the Supreme Court found segregation in public schools to be discriminatory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the decision was difficult to enforce because 11 states in the south adopted resolutions preventing, negating, or opposing desegregation. -
I Have a Dream
On August 28, 1963, around 250,000 people—both Black and white—participated in the Washigton for Jobs and Freedom, the nation's capital's largest protest in history and the most visible manifestation of the human rights movement's growing strength. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
By 1960, the civil rights organization in the United States had gained massive force. That year, John F. Kennedy ran president on campaign of passing new civil rights legislation, and he received more than 70% of the African American vote. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act attempted to eliminate legal barriers that still remained at the state and local levels , preventing Black Americans from exercising the 15th Amendment right to vote. -
Rise of Black Power
After the enthusiasm of the civil rights movement's early years, many African Americans' rage and discontent increased as many recognized that real equality, economic, and political - remained elusive. This discontent drove the growth of the Black Civil rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. -
Fair Housing Act
It was the last big legislative success of the civil rights era, originally developed to give federal protection to civil rights to workers but ultimately extended to cambat racial discrimination in the sale, renting, or financing of housing units -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
The news that civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, in which he had gone to support a sanitation workers' shocked and devastated the world the world on April 4 , 1968. The murder of Martin Luther King Jr. created a tremendous divide between white and black americans. -
Shirley Chisholm for President
The advancements of the civil rights movement mixed with the rise of the women's movement to create an African American women's movement. -
Million Man March
Hundreds of thousands of Black men gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Million Man March, which had been intended to stimulate spiritual renewal between Black men, and also a sense of solidarity and personal resposibility to improve their own situations. It would also contradict some of the stereotypical negative images of Black men that existed in American society, according to participants. -
Colin Powell Becomes Secretary of State
Colin Powell, a Vietnam veteran and four-star US Army general who played an important role troughout planning and executing the first Persian Gulf War, was designated Secretary of State by GeorgE W. Bush, making him the first Black American to serve as America's top diplomat. -
Barack Obama Becomes President
After surviving a tense Primary election battle with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama was elected in as the 44th president of the United States. He is the first African American to take the position. Obama's performances in the primaries and general election drew massive crowds, and his message of hope and keep changing throughout the phrase "Yes We Can" - inspired thousands of new voters, many of which were young and Black, to vote again in 2012. -
The Black Lives Matter Movement
A series of deaths of Black Americans' deaths at the hands of police officers generated anger and protests, creating a moment on the internet for all of these acts. -
George Floyd Protests
George Floyd, 46 years old died after being arrested and pushed to the ground by the policeman Derek Chauvin during the Covid-19 epidemic. -
Kamala Harris Becomes the First Woman and First Black US Vice President
Kamala Harris was elected Vice President of the Usa, becoming the first woman and the first woman of color to do so.
