African American Slave History

By Kahkee
  • 1965 BCE

    Voting Rights Act

    1965- 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.
  • 1964 BCE

    Freedom Summer and the”Mississippi Burning” Murders

    1964- Freedom Summer and the”Mississippi Burning” Murders 53 years ago
    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”.
  • 1964 BCE

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1964- Civil Rights Act of 1964 53 years ago
    . Congress was debating Kennedy’s civil rights reform bill when he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. It was left to Lyndon Johnson (not previously known for his support of civil rights) to push the Civil Rights Act–the most far-reaching act of legislation supporting racial equality in American history–through Congress in June 1964.
  • 1909 BCE

    1909- NAACP Founded

    1909- NAACP Founded 108 years ago
    Establishment of political protest movement who demanded civil rights for blacks
  • 1896 BCE

    1896- Separate but Equal

    1896- 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
  • 1861 BCE

    1861- Civil War

    1861- Civil War and Emancipation 156 years ago
    Emancipation was the freeing of 3 million slaves in the rebel states of the civil war
  • 1831 BCE

    1831- Liberator

    1831- 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)
  • 1808 BCE

    1808- Slave importing Banned

    1808- Slave importing Banned 209 years ago
    American congress bans further importation of slaves
  • 1739 BCE

    1739- The Stono Rebellion

    1739- 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
  • 1690 BCE

    1690- Every American Colony

    1690- Every American Colony had slaves 327 years ago
    By this year, just about every colony in America had slaves brought from Africa
  • 1619 BCE

    1619- Slaves Arrive in America

    1619- Slaves Arrive in America 398 Years ago
    First African contracted servants arrive in American colonies

  • 1619- Slaves Arrive in America 398 Years ago

    First African contracted servants arrive in American colonies

  • 1690- Every American Colony had slaves 327 years ago

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

  • 1739- 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

  • 1808- Slave importing Banned 209 years ago

    American congress bans further importation of slaves

  • 1831- 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)

  • 1861- Civil War and Emancipation 156 years ago

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

  • 1896- 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

  • 1909- NAACP Founded 108 years ago

    Establishment of political protest movement who demanded civil rights for blacks

  • 1941- African Americans in WWII 76 years ago

    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. According to War Department policy.

  • 1961- Core and Freedom Rides 56 years ago

    Founded in 1942 by the civil rights leader James Farmer, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sought to end discrimination and improve race relations through direct action. In its early years, CORE staged a sit–in at a Chicago coffee shop (a precursor to the successful sit–in movement of 1960) and organized a “Journey of Reconciliation,” in which a group of blacks and whites rode together on a bus through the upper South in 1947, a year after the U.S.

  • Jackie Robinson

    1947- 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

    1954- 63 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.

  • Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    On December 1, 1955, an African–American woman named Rosa Parks was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Parks refused, and was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, which stated that blacks sit in the back of public buses and give up their seats for white riders if the front seats were full. Parks, a 42–year–old seamstress, was also the secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.

  • Central High School Integrated

    1957- 60 years ago
    Central High School, located in the state capital of Little Rock was integrated

  • Birmingham Church Bombed

    1961- Birmingham Church Bombed 56 years ago
    In mid-September, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama during Sunday services; four young African-American girls were killed in the explosion. The church bombing was the third in 11 days, after the federal government had ordered the integration of Alabama’s school system.

  • 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. After marching from the Washington Monument, the demonstrators gathered near the Lincoln Memorial, where a number of civil rights leaders addressed the crowd.