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Crispus Attucks was an African-American man killed during the Boston Massacre, making him the first casualty of the American Revolution.
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Nat Turner and his group of followers killed sixty white men and women in one night.
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In 1839, slaves aboard a ship called the Amistad revolted to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another.
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Allowed slave hunters to capture alleged fugitive slaves with out due process of the law.
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Allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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Supreme court over ruled the decision of Sanford against Dred Scott
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South Carolina seceded from the US once Lincolns victory was assured.
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Declared free all slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government.
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The Union defeated the Confederacy, 620,000 soldiers died in total.
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John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Abraham Lincoln during a play at Fords theatre in Washington D.C
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abolished slavery in the United States.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including recently freed slaves.
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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Arrested for sitting in the "white car" of a Louisana train.
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25 blacks were killed by a white mob. More black people were killed but their bodies were dumped in the river.
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Florida town was destroyed and many of its residents were killed after a white woman accused a black man of raping her.
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9 African-American boys were arrested and accused of raping 2 white girls.
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Used african american men as lab animals to test out a disease.
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The first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi.
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United States Supreme Court ruled that a public schools could not provide different treatment to a student because of their race.
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that under the Equal Protection Clause, Sweatt must be admitted to the university.
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Members of the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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14 year old boy was beaten and killed by white men after a white woman claimed he made sexual contact with her in a store.
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Nine African-American children risked their lives to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas which was an all white school.
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Led a 18 men into the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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6 year old Ruby Bridges was escorted to school by federal marshals to a newly integrated school in New Orleans.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism.
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The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on as an act of a white supremacist group. The explosion at the African-American church, killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of African-American in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. He was then in an altercation within the 400 person crowd when a man shot him in the chest with a sawed off shot gun.
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Protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
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Ratified the 15th amendment which denied African-American men the right to vote based on race and color.
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Marquette Frye was arrested by a white officer based only on the officers suspicion of him being intoxicated. For the next 6 days riots destroyed the south Los Angeles town.
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Protesters in South Carolina were shot by police officers because they were against racial segregation at a bowling alley.
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Martin Luther King was shot and killed while standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.
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Davis was charged with aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley. She then ran and hid because there was a warrant for her arrest.
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Pieces of bone representing about 40% of a female body was discovered, scientist named it AL288-1. Lucy lived 3.2 million years ago and is classified as a hominid.
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Roots was written by Alex Haley and was first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an African, captured and sold into slavery in the United States, It follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley.
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Rodney King was beat by LA police after officers claimed he was resisiting arrest and tried to pull a weapon out on them.
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Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States in Washington D.C.
