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Slavery in 1641
1641
The D'Angola marriage is the first recorded marriage between blacks in New Amsterdam. -
Slavery in 1770
1770
Escaped slave, Crispus Attucks, is killed by British forces in Boston, Massachusetts. He is one of the first colonists to die in the war for independence. -
Maria W. Stewart - Slavery in 1831
1831
Maria W. Stewart, a free black woman in Boston, Massachusetts, speaks out against slavery, becoming the first African-American woman to deliver a public lecture in the U.S. 1831
North Carolina passes a law enforcing prohibition against teaching slaves to read and write as well as against providing slaves with reading materials like books or pamphlets. -
Frederick Douglass - 1847 Slavery
1847
Frederick Douglass breaks with William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, THE LIBERATOR, to found a black abolitionist paper called THE NORTH STAR. -
Civil War
The Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation. The war began to struggle to preserve the Union and not a struggle to free the slaves. But, many in the North and South felt that the conflict would ultimately decide both issues. Reference: -
Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
On July 2, Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination in employment and also public places.
The Civil Rights Movement produced a new generation of writers, artists, films, dramatists, and directors. There was a founding of writers’ groups, community theaters, literary magazines, and small presses nation-wide.
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Civil Rights Activists and the Movement of 1951-1959
Civil rights activists and students across the South challenged segregation, also the relatively new technology of television allowed Americans to witness the often brutal responses as to how they were treated during these protests. -
1619 Slavery
The first true documented Africans to arrive in one of America's colonies which are known today as "Virginia" arrived in August 1619. They arrived on the Dutch Man warship called the "White Lion." This ship carried slaves from the West Coast of Africa.
