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Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that all persons held as slaves within the, Confederate states, are, and henceforward shall be free.
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George Washington Carver
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Black Codes
Black codes are passed by Southern states, drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slave
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Freedmen's Bureau
Congress establishes the Freedmen's Bureau to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks
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Assination of President Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln is killed and President Andrew Johnson takes office.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee by ex-Confederates
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Thirtheenth Admentment
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery
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Reconstruction Acts
A series of Reconstruction acts are passed, carving the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves. Read More about Reconstruction Acts' >Read More about Reconstruction Acts</a> -
William Edward Burghardt DuBois
Died on August 27,1963. DuBois was a writer, historian, leader and one of the founders of the NAACP. -
Howard University
Howard University's law school becomes the country's first black law school. Read More about Howard University -
First black senator elected.
Hiram Revels of Mississippi elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator. Read More about Hiram Revels -
Black Exodus
The Black Exodus takes place, in which tens of thousands of African Americans migrated from southern states to Kansas. Read More about Black Exodus -
Spelman College
Spelman College, the first college for black women in the U.S., is founded by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles. Read More about Spelman College -
Fredrick Douglass
February 17, 1818 – February 20, 1895 -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional
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Ned Comes to Visit
The summer after 1898 Ned arrives with his wife, Vivian, and their three children. -
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Harriet Tubman
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UNIA
Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an influential black nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among blacks
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
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Ned is Killed
He charges Cluveau and shoots him once in the knee, since the whites wanted Ned to kneel before dying. Ned keeps coming and Cluveau fires into his chest. Blood is everywhere. The students place Ned on the lumber and drive to his house. -
Flood of 1927
The Flood of 1927 will destroy the school that the community finished and supported for years. -
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Scottsboro boys
Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women. The Supreme Court overturns their convictions twice; each time Alabama retries them, finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottsboro boys are freed; but five are sentenced to long prison term
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans
Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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Rosa parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger Read More About: Rosa Parks -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. Federal troops and the National Guard are called to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." Despite a year of violent threats, several of the "Little Rock Nine" manage to graduate from Central Hig
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Jimmy "the one" dies
At one of his displays of civil disobedience, he is shot,and the news comes back to the blacks living at Samson. -
"Greensboro Four"
Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Six months later the "Greensboro Four" are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Read More About: Greensboro Four -
James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation.
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