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Social Justice & Photography
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Commercial tobacco raised in Jamestown, VA
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Twenty Africans transported to Jamestown - enslaved peoples work in colonies
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Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act gives government the right to keep Freedom Seekers enslaved -
View from the Window at La Gras
Niepce creates the earliest surviving image -
William Henry Fox Talbot invents paper negative process
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Release of the Daguerreotype process
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Samual Morse brings Daguerreotype to US
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First use of Photographic Advertisements
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California Gold Rush
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Compromise of 1850
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Crimean War
First conflict capture with the use of photography -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Supreme Court upholds that American Citizenship did not include Black people -
James Brown raid at Harper's Ferry
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Lincoln becomes President
Start of the Civil War -
Oliver Wendell Holmes patents the Stereoscope
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End of the Civil War - Abolition of Slavery
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Thomas Edison invents electric lights
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Kodak roll-film camera is released by George Eastman
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Eiffel Tower is built in Paris
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Lumiere Brothers develop Motion Picture
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Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow Laws -
Kodak releases the Brownie camera for public sale
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First 35mm Camera is developed
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Franz Ferdinand and wife are assassinated
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated triggering the start of WWI -
German attacks US Merchant Ship
US joins WWI -
Germany signs peace agreement
Ending WWI -
Red Summer
Over 70 Black Americans are lynched -
US Stock Market crashes triggering the Great Depression
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Star Spangled Banner adopted as US national anthem
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Kodak releases Kodachrome
First successful mass production of color film -
Germany invades Poland triggering WWII
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
US enters WWII -
Japanese Surrender
Ending WWII -
President Truman uses executive order to desegregate the Armed Forces
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Brown vs Board of Education
Desegregation of schools -
14 year old Emmett Till is murdered
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat prompting Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Little Rock Nine
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Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1957
Protecting voting rights for women and Black folks -
The Greensboro Sit-in
Sit-in at Woolsworth's "whites only" lunch counter -
Ruby Bridges escorted into William Frantz Elementary School
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Freedom Riders take to busses through American South and are met with violence
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Polaroid Instant Color Film released
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech -
Linden B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
Preventing employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, and national orientation. -
Malcolm X is assassinated
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968
Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
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Last known Lynching
Michael Donald
Mobile, Alabama -
Canon demonstrates first digital still camera