Slaves Arrive in America

By tashtag

  • Slaves Arrive in America

    398 Years ago
    First African contracted servants arrive in American colonies

  • The Stono Rebellion

    278 years ago
    Slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising

  • Slave importing Banned

    209 years ago
    American congress bans further importation of slaves

  • Liberator

    186 years ago
    Anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator is published and becomes a leading voice in the Abolitionist movement (Movement that eventually saw slavery become illegal)

  • Civil War and Emancipation

    156 years ago
    Emancipation was the freeing of 3 million slaves in the rebel states of the civil war

  • Separate but Equal

    121 years ago
    Legislation was introduced (Laws)in the southern states which eventuated in separate schools for blacks and whites, “persons of colour” were required to be separate from whites in railroad cars, hotels, theatres, restaurants, hairdressing salons and other establishments

  • NAACP Founded

    During World War II, many African Americans were ready to fight for what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the “Four Freedoms”— freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear—even while they themselves lacked those freedoms at home. More than 3 million blacks would register for service during the war, with some 500,000 seeing action overseas.

  • Jackie Robinson

    70 years ago
    By 1900, the unwritten color line barring blacks from white teams in professional baseball was strictly enforced. Jackie Robinson, a sharecropper’s son from Georgia, joined the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1945, after a stint in the U.S. Army (he earned an honorable discharge after facing a court–martial for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus)

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    3 years ago
    On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.

  • Every American Colony had slaves

    327 years ago
    By this year, just about every colony in America had slaves brought from Africa

  • I Have a Dream

    On August 28, 1963, some 250,000 people—both black and white—participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest demonstration in the history of the nation’s capital and the most significant display of the civil rights movement’s growing strength.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    53 years ago
    Thanks to the campaign of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had begun to gain serious momentum in the United States by 1960.

  • Freedom Summer and the”Mississippi Burning” Murders

    In the summer of 1964, civil rights organizations including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children. The organizations believed the participation of white students in the so–called “Freedom Summer”.

  • Voting Rights Act

    52 years ago
    Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed in August 1965. The Voting Rights Act sought to overcome the legal barriers that still existed at the state and local level preventing blacks from exercising the right to vote given them by the 15th Amendment.