Race relations timeline

  • Ft Blount Revolt

    Ft Blount Revolt
    Around 300 slaves revolt and capture a fort Blount. All slaves were captured and killed. Fort was burned to the ground
  • Denmark Vesey

    Denmark Vesey
    Denmark Vesey had a plan to lead the largest slave revolt, but his news quickly got spread, leading him to be arrested and hung.
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    Nat Turners rebellion

    Nat Turner gained a small army of slaves, killing 51 white peoples and evading capture for 3 weeks.
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    Bleeding Kansas

    Series of violent protests in Kansas on the issue of Kansas becoming a free or slave state
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin
    anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Depicted the harshness of slavery
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    John Browns Raid

    John Brown wanted to take over a U.S arsenal and start a slave revolt. His army was defeated by U.S marines.
  • Start of the Civil War

    Start of the Civil War
    Beginning of th civil war. Fight for freedom, end slavery, and make the nation whole again.
  • Emancipation Proclomation

    Emancipation Proclomation
    Proclamation made by Lincoln to free all slaves.
  • Jim Crow Laws carried out in the South

    Jim Crow Laws carried out in the South
    State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson
    Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal.
  • NAACP is formed

    NAACP is formed
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to pursue the educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons
  • The Congress of Racial equality is formed

    The Congress of Racial equality is formed
    The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
  • Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play in the MLB

    Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play in the MLB
    Jackie Robinson breakers barriers and becomes the first African American to play in the MLB.
  • NAACP becomes most powerful civil rights organization

  • Brown vs Board case

    Brown vs Board case
    Supreme Court case in which the Court decided that separate public schools for black and white students are unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks refuses to give us her seat

    Rosa Parks refuses to give us her seat
    Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, causing her to be arrested. This started a series of protests including bus boycotts.
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    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African American citizens refused to ride the busses in Montgomery, Alabama in order to protest against racial segregation.
  • Congress pass civil rights act

    Congress pass civil rights act
    President Eisenhower signed the bill which gave better voting protection rights to African Americans.
  • SNCC is formed

    SNCC is formed
    SNCC goal was to increase students participation on protests.
  • Greensbor Sit in

    Greensbor Sit in
    Four African American students refused to give up their seats at a lunch counter and were refused to be seved. Coming back everday with more protesters.
  • Freedom Riders Be

    Freedom Riders Be
    2 buses set to travel from Washington DC to Lousiana to protest unjust laws. One bus is attacked by a white mob while the other was fire bombed
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Protest walk from Washington Monumenr of the Lincoln memorial. Purpose was to bring equality to African Americans. MLK delivers I have a dream speech.
  • March on Selma

    March on Selma
    Selma to Montgomery. Marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.
  • Voting rights act

    Goal was to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels that would prevent African Americans from voting
  • Barack Obama becomes President

    Barack Obama becomes President
    Barack Obama’s becomes the first African American President
  • Kaperknick takes a knee

    Kaperknick takes a knee
    Kaepernick quotes "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,"