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Antonio a Negro
Antonio a Negro arrives in Virgina on a Jamestown Settlement. -
Slavery was made Illegal
Slavery was made illegal in the North West Territory. The United States Constitution states that the congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808. -
Congress Bans Importation of Slaves
The Congress bans importation of Slaves from Africa but not the sale and practice of slavery. -
The Amistad Slave Ship
Joesph Cinque lead thirty-seven African Americans on the Amistad Slave Ship. They killed the captain and took complete control over the ship. The ship was later captured by the United States. It was taken to the Supreme Court and the slaves were freed and were to return to their homes in Africa. -
Frederick Douglass
He had launched an abolitionist newspaper which was known as The North Star. Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838. He posed as a free black seaman on a train ride to the north and after that he had become a infamous speaker on the abolitionist lecture circuit. He had a very important political figure. -
Harriet Tubman
She escaped from slavery and had become one of the most celebrated and effective leaders of the underground railroad. She guided hundreds of slaves to freedom before and during the Civil War. She was never captured rescuing slaves. -
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was started by a man named William Still. It was a "network" or secret routes, way-stations, safe havens and meeting points. Thousands of African Americans would escape from slavery and go here. Some routes from this Underground Railroad would travel to as far as Canada or Mexico. -
Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a presidential order declaring the freedom of slaves and makes the end of slavery a major goal of the Civil War. He said, "All persons held as slaves, within the confederate states, are and henceforward shall be free." -
"Black Codes"
The Black Codes were unoffical laws put in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of African Americans. -
Civil War Begins
April 9, 1865 The southern states seceded from the untion and the Civil War begins. This is known as the bloodiest war in American History. It was fought entirely on American soil and at the end of the war about 600,000 people had been reported dead. -
The Civil War Ends
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President Lincoln is Assasssinated
John Wilkes Booth (Famous Actor and Confederate sympathizer) fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. -
The Klu Klux Klan was formed in Tennessee by Ex-Confederates
The first branch of the Klu Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee. Most of the leaders of this group were former members of the Condederate Army. These Klansment would wear masks, white cardboard hats, and draped in white sheets. They tortured and killed African Americans and sympatehtic whites. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified prohibiting slavery. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act sought to protect freedman and grant full citizenship to those born on United States soil, except Indians. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution grants citizenship to former slaves. -
Plessey Vs. Ferguson Case
The Supreme Court decides in the Plessey Vs. Ferguson case that "separate but equal" satisfies the Fourteenth Amendment, which would give sanction to "Jim Crow" segregation laws. -
The Harlem Renaissance Begins
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of almost fifteen years. This was when some of the most important writers, artists and musicians emerged in the African American community and took up residence in New York's Harlem district. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
This was a case in which thirteen parents in Topeka, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit against the Board of Education. It resulted in the Supreme Court decision to outlaw segregation in any public school. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was Arrested NAACP secretary refused to give up her seat to a white patron on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was therefore arrested and tried sparking a much publicized and highly organized yearlong boycott of the Montgomery buses. -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Over 200,000 people marched for jobs and their freedom at the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech about racial harmony ("I have a dream..”) -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Is Assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Is Assassinated. In Memphis, Tennessee. This marked the end of the Civil Rights Era. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 that prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing houses. -
Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President
Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President. First African American to win the Democratic nomination for United States presidential candidate.
