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The first African slaves come to Virginia
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Largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies
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The earliest known black poet
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First man killed in the Boston Massacre
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religions, and Moral is the first book published by an African American woman
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US Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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Slaves who escaped by crossing state lines can be legally enslaved again
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Gabriel Prosser attempts to lead a slave revolt
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Congress bans the importation of African slaves
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Slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri is banned.
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Denmark Vesey's planned revolt is discovered. He and 34 others are hanged.
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Nat Turner leads the most significant slave uprising in history. Stricter slave laws are put in place as consequence.
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William Lloyd Garrison creates a weekly abolitionist newspaper.
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Attempted to ban slavery in territory gained in the Mexican war.
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Frederick Douglass launches his abolitionist newspaper.
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Becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad
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California is admitted as a free state-- Utah and New Mexico have popular sovereignty,
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Harriet Beecher Stowe stirs anti-slavery movements with her novel.
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The Missouri Compromise is repealed and new tensions arise.
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Congress holds that slaves are not citizens.
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The federal arsenal is captured by John Brown and 21 followers in an attempt to launch a slave revolt.
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South Carolina is the first to secede and the Civil War begins.
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Lincoln announces that all slaves in rebelling states are freed
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Ex-confederates form the hate group in Tennessee.
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Southern states begin to restrict newly granted African American freedoms.
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Congress begins to protect the rights of the newly emancipated slaves
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All slaves are freed and slavery is illegal in the United States.
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Reconstruction begins.
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John Wilkes Booth murders President Lincoln.
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The Confederacy is divided into 5 military districts.
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Equal civil rights are given to former slaves (excluding voting)
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Gave African Americans the right to vote
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Hiram Revel of Mississippi is elected the country's first African-American Senator. During reconstruction, 16 blacks served in Congress and about 600 served in states legislatures
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Federal attempts to provide some basic civil rights for African Americans quickly erode.
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Leading school of higher learning for African Americans, and stressed the practical application of knowledge.
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Separate but equal
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A iconic trumpeter who created 'La vie en rose' and 'What a Wonderful World'
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Created by WEB Du bois. Most influential African-American civil rights organization
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Literary, artistic, intellectual movement fosters new black culture identity
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Hattie McDaniel is the first African American to win an Oscar
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Emmitt Till is murdered by white men for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Public outrage after white men's case is acquitted causes civil rights movement
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First African American to go into space
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Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed on to Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey
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Harry Truman integrated U.S. forces after WWII even though African-Americans participated in the wars before
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In Topeka, Kansas, racial segregation in school is unconstitutional
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger. Montgomery's black community riots bus. Montgomery's buses are desegregated
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9 black students blocked from entering school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. Federal gov. intervenes on side of the students . And they graduate despite the constant violent threats
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4 black students in Greensboro, NC, begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. 4 months later the lunch counter is desegregated. Triggers similar nonviolent protests
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student volunteers who toured the south to test out laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. They were attacked by angry mobs. Sponsored by CORE and SNCC
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250,000 in attendance. Largest demonstration in Nation's capital. MLK's "I Have A Dream"
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MLK Jr receives Nobel Peace Prize
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prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin
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State troopers violently attack peaceful demonstrators led by MLK Jr. as they try to cross Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Police use tear gas, whips, and clubs. Pushed for voting rights act 5 months later
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Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Kwanzaa was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga to celebrate african history
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Thurgood Marshall becomes first black Supreme Court Justice
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prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of houses
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MLK Jr. is assassinated in Memphis Tenn
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Janelle Commissiong is the first African American woman to win Miss Universe
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south-central LA after jury acquits 4 white police officers for videotaped beating of Rodney King
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1st african american president elected president of US.
