Timeline of movements

  • 1526

    Atlantic Slave Trade

    The global slave trade that took 10–12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas.
  • The first enslaved Africans arrive in what is now Connecticut

  • American Revolution

    in this war around 9,000 African Americans became Black Patriots. that mean that the four percent of the patriots.
  • Abolition of slavery

    The 13th Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery, but freed Black peoples' status in the post-war.
  • Case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • Movement of Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • Movement of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College

    Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter.
  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is created

    This Committee was created to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism. SNCC members played an integral role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington, and such voter education projects as the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
  • Congress of Racial Equality

    The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a great role for African Americans in the civil rights movement.
  • The restrict of black voting become ilegal

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
  • Black Lives Matter Movement

    In this year The Black Lives Matter became fundamental for the Black comunity, all after the murder of George Floyd.