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one of the first men to die for American Revolution, was a fugitive slave who had escape from his master and had worked for twenty years as a merchant seaman.
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(also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the American South.
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slaves aboard a ship called the Amistad revolted to secure their freedom while being transported from one cuban port to another.
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This was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law.
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called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe-s.[1]) was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi, signs the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators. With Smith's surrender, the last Confederate army ceased to exist, bringing a formal end to the bloodiest four years in U.S. history.
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
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granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States
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a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
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a riot by southern white carolinians in Greenwood,Sc . over a dozen black learders were murdered and injured by a white mob.
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In 1898, Wilmington was a thriving port city on the coast of North Carolina. About two-thirds of Wilmington’s population was African American. African Americans were business people who owned barbershops, restaurants, tailor shops, and drug stores. African Americans also held positions as firemen and policemen. Overall, the African American and white races existed peacefully but separately.
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The Rosewood Massacure was a racially motivated mob atrocity in Florida.
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The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers accused of rape in Alabama in 1931.
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was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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was a United States Supreme Court case that reversed a lower court decision upholding the efforts of the state-supported University of Oklahoma to adhere to the state law requiring African-Americans to be provided graduate or professional education on a segregated basis.
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Emmett Louis Till (july 25, 1941-aug 28, 1955)
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Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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born sept 8, 1954
was the first African American child (age 6) to attend an all white public elementary school in the american south. -
an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser.
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more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
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in Birmingham, Alabama act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States
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an African American Muslim minister and a human rights activist
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also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
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is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting.[8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement
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was a race riot that took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The six-day unrest resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
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An act of racism in a small Southern town led to a peaceful protest by frustrated black college students who were denied use of the community’s only bowling alley.
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was an american pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement.
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an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA,
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a skeleton of evidence of small skull capacity akin to that of apes and of bipedal upright walk of humans
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based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, a movie sequence about how africans were captured as slaves and also about the main character kunta kinte lived his life as a slave.
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was an African-American construction worker who became nationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991.
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is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office.
