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Crispus Attucks dies in Boston Massacre
Attucks took two riocheyed bullets in the chest and was the first to die -
Nat Turner Rebellinon
A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children -
Amistad Revolt
53 African Natives were kidnapped from Eastern Africa and sold into the Spanish Slave Trade -
Scott V. Sandforrd
Scott declared he was a "citizen" of the State of Missouri and that the defendant was a citizen of the State of New York. The Court acknowledged that this prima facie established federal jurisdiction under the Diversity Clause. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia -
SC Secedes from the Union
by a vote of 169-0, the South Carolina legislature enacted an "ordinance" that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." -
Fugtive Slave Law
denied slaves the right to a jury trial and increased the penalty for interfering with the rendition process to $1000 and six months in jail -
Emancipation Proclamation
It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion thus applying to 3 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time -
13th Amendment
“all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free -
Assasination of Lincoln
a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C -
End of Civil War
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators -
14th Amendment
"deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” -
15th Amendment
African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Justice Henry Brown of Michigan delivered the majority opinion, which sustained the constitutionality of Louisiana’s Jim Crow law -
Phoenix,AZ Riot
Bands of armed whites scoured the countryside in search of victims. They drove the Tolberts from their homes and lynched four black men in the shadows of Rehoboth church, where the Tolberts and many other local whites worshipped. At least eight African Americans, and perhaps many more, were killed in the following weeks. No one was ever charged with the crimes. -
Wilmington NC Riot
The Riot was a white supremacist movement, which overthrew the legitimately elected biracial government of Wilmington, North Carolina and replaced it with officials who instituted the first Jim Crow laws in North Carolina -
Rosewood Massacre
he massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community. A group of white men, believing this rapist to be a recently escaped convict named Jesse Hunter who was hiding in Rosewood, assembled to capture this man. -
Scottsboro Boys
The sheriff deputized a posse, stopped and searched the train at Paint Rock, Alabama, arrested the black teenagers, and found two young white women who accused the teenagers of rape -
Mclaurin V. Oklahoma
George W. McLaurin was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma’s Doctorate in Education program, solely because of his race. A state statute declared it a misdemeanor to operate a school in which both whites and African American students were taught. -
Sweatt V. Painter
When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. -
Brown VS. Board
Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black -
Death of Emmett Till
When he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. -
Little Rock 9
the Nine attempted to enter Central but were turned away by Arkansas National Guard troops called out by the governor -
Ruby Bridges
Federal marshals drove my mother and me the five blocks to William Frantz. In the car one of the men explained that when we arrived at the school two marshals would walk in front of us an two behind, so we'd be protected on both sides. -
James Meredith
The District Court entered its injunction directing the members of the Board of Trustees and the officials of the University to register Meredith. -
March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
16th St. Baptist Church Bombing
An act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church killed four girls -
Assasination of Malcolm X
Shortly after repudiating the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three of its members -
March on Selma
also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting -
Watts Riots
which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era -
Orangeburg Massacre
A conservative Southern governor, wanting to appear tough to his white constituents, overreacted to the civil rights protest ordering a massive show of armed force. -
Assasination of MLK JR.
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39. -
Arrest of Angela Davis
Superior Judge Peter Allen Smith charged Davis with "aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder in the death of Judge Harold Haley" and issued a warrant for her arrest -
Congressional Hearnings end for Tuskegee Study
news accounts sparked a public outcry that ultimately brought the notorious experimentation to an end. -
LUCY is discovered
The skeleton shows small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk akin to that of the humans -
ROOTS was published
a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley -
Beating of Rodney King
The footage shows five officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by -
Barack Obama becomes first black president
President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose -
Fugitive Slave Act
It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law
