Events
1619 - Slavery comes to North America.1793 - Rise of the cotton industry.1860 - Lincoln gets elected as president1861 - The Civil War began1862 -Congress annulled the fugitive slave laws1862- Congress annulled the fugitive slave laws1864- April - Two-thirds of the Republican Senate passed the amendment.1865- January - The House of Representatives pass the amendment1865- December 2 - Alabama becomes the 27th state to ratify the 13th Amendment.1865, December 18 - The 13th Amendment1909 - NAACP1955, December 1 Rosa Parks1957 - The Little Rock Nine1963 - Martin Luther King Jr.1965, February 21 - Malcolm X1966 - The militant party “Black Panthers”1968, April 4 -Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated outside his motel room.1983 - First African-American astronaut2003 - Oprah Winfrey2009 - Barack Obama2013, July 13 - The movement “Black Lives Matter” is established.2014 - Michael BrownPeriods
The African American civil rights movement is established.
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