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First Slaves in US
The first slaves arrived in Virginia -
Slavery Banned in the Northwest Territory
Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory. -
Gabriel Prosser
Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African-American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened. -
Importation stops
Congress bans the importation of Africans into America. -
Amistad
53 African slaves on board the slave ship the Amistad revolted against their captors, killing all but the ship's navigator, who sailed them to Long Island, N.Y., instead of their intended destination, Africa. Joseph Cinqué was the group's leader. The slaves aboard the ship became unwitting symbols for the antislavery movement in pre-Civil War United States. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing all slaves to be free. -
Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow Laws were statutes enacted by Southern states, that legalized segregation between African Americans and whites. -
World War 1 and World war 2
Much like the Indingenous Australians African Americans anxiously and optimistically returned home hoped that their patriotic sacrifices would have a positive impact on race relations and expand the boundaries of civil rights. After WW1 there was not much change but after WW2 (although not instantly) they did start a large civil rights movement as a lot of the African American farmers choose to stay in the citys with a job based of the skills they learnt while serving. -
Brown vs Board of Education
The Supreme Court bans segregation in US public schools in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. -
Declaration of Human rights
This set the bar for equality but yet when it comes to race it is (especially in that time period) not followed up or agreed with. -
Rosa Parks
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man, causing a successful bus boycott by the African-American community. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy, is murdered for whistling (it was seen as flirting) at a white woman. -
Freedom Riders
Student volunteers called Freedom Riders begin testing state laws prohibiting racial segregation on US buses and railway stations. -
I have a dream speech
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr delivers a speech called "I have a dream" to thousands live using the rhetorical strategy of repetition to drive home his point."I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. -
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr assassinated
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was shot by James Earl Ray