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Racial Inequality for Black People

By nailavargas

  • Slaves

    Slaves
    During 1619, it was the very first year of the first African slaves to arrive in Virginia.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    During the 1820s, the Missouri Compromise bans slavery in the southern boundary of Missouri

  • Slave uprising

    Nat Turner, who was an enslaved African preacher led a significant slave uprising, (rebellion) turns out later Turner was hanged.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    President Lincoln declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the confederate states, shall be free

  • Ku Klux Klan/ Amendment

    Ku Klux Klan/ Amendment
    In 1865, the KKK was formed where many black people were targeted and lynched trying to get rid of all black people, while the 13th amendment was passed, prohibiting slavery

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    With the Supreme Court that holds the racial segregation, the Jim Crow laws get passed in the South

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    The First African-American who gets signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey, which caused a chaos to all baseball fans

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    black nationalist and separatist movement, and minister of the Nation of Islam

  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King
    One of the famous leaders of Black Movement, where he was arrested and jailed, he led marches for better civil rights movements

  • Riots

    Riots
    The very first race riot occurred in central LA of a videotape of four white officers beating Rodney King

  • Best Actress/ Actor Oscar

    Best Actress/ Actor Oscar
    Halle Berry very first African American actor of the 21st century to win the best actress oscar, while Denzel Washington is the first to win Best Actor as well

  • President

    President
    Barack Obama became the very first African-American president who also completed 8 full years in his position

  • RIP Michael Brown

    RIP Michael Brown
    18 year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, where the jury decided the police officer Darren Wilson wasn't guilty, which sparked many riots throughout cities to claim the right decision

  • Today

    Today
    Today, there are still many events, where many black people are being discriminated, targeted, killed, while they are mentioned as "criminals" many of them do nothing but are shot and their killers aren't charged