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During Slavery: Colonel Lance Shelby--Old Sir, Ebony Woman
During Slavery
Colonel is father to Gram
Old Sir is a slave owner, Ebony woman is his slave -
Period: to
The Wedding
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Antebellum
Gram-Caroline Shelby
Melisse, Gram's former slave
Butternut Woman marries Issac -
Isaac/School Teacher--Hannibal/Josephine
1st generation-Up from slavery
Isaac a doctor marries School Teacher
Hanibal-Melisse's son marries Josephine, Gram's daughter -
Clark Coles marries Corinne
Clark, son of Isaac and School Teacher
Corrine, daughter of Hannibal and Josephine
Rachel mistress -
Liz/Lincoln-Meade/Shelby-Lute/3 Wives
1950's in The Wedding
Liz, Shelby-daughters of Clark and Corrine -
Court Proceedings
Sweatt v. Painter
McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Henderson v. United States -
Publishing
Pittsburg Courier is largest AA newspaper.
Ebony is largest AA magazine. -
Eisenhower wins presidential election.
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1st argument of Brown v. BOE, Topeka
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Sppreme Court orders reargument of Brown v. BOE
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Brown is reargued
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Brown v. BOE, Topeka
Chief Justice Warren declares "separate is not equal". -
Armed Forces
Department of Defense announces desegregation of Armed Forces -
Education
Supreme Court instructs all lower Federal Courts to desegregate schools with "all deliberate speed". -
Emmett Till
14 year old Chicago boy, murdered in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Start of bus boycott, Martin Luther King named President and Leader -
Mass protests and riots
Unrest in Virginia, Alabama, and Clinton, Tennessee. National Guards dispatche to Tenessee. -
End of Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott ends marking the end of segregated buses. -
SNLC/SCLC
Organization of SNLC later named SCLC, King is 1st Chairman. -
Harlem
Malcolm leads a protest in Harlem after Muslims are beaten by White police officers. -
Voter's Rights Act
African Americans can no longer be denied the right to vote. -
Central High School
Little Rock 9 integrates Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Loving v. Virginia
Milded (Jeter) Loving, black, and Richard Perry Loving, white, married in Virginia and were classified as felons for breaking the miscegenation laws. Their marriage became the grondbreaking case behind the Supreme Court ruling of Loving v. Virginia in 1967.