Ben And Lucas TImeline
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Updated: 15 Dec 2017
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Black Leaders founded the Niagara act. It
brought up the legal changes addressing the
issues of crime, economics, religion, health, and
education.In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
provided more support for African Americans
than at any other time since Reconstruction.The first Emancipation Proclamation was read
by President Lincoln, stating that all slaves were
free in all states of the United States. It was the
first step in African Americans Civil Rights.The KKK was founded by a group of Confederate
veterans. They attacked black people alike and
killed them.The civil rights act was passed by Congress on
April 9th 1866 over the veto of President
Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all
people born in the United States were now
citizens, without regard to race, color, or
previous country.The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was the Enforcement
act or it was sometimes called the Force act.The U.S supreme court ruled that African
Americans could not be excluded from a jury
based on color of skin.The Tennessee State Legislature voted to segregate
railroad passenger cars. Sophia B.
Packard and Harriet E. Giles started a college for
black women.Jim Crow laws were put in place. They
segregated all facilities in the former Southern
Confederate states.In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme
Court ruled that segregation of classrooms was
unconstitutional.Emmett Till was a fourteen-year-old boy who was
from Chicago visiting family in Mississippi who
was brutally beaten.Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L.
Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, of which King is made
the first president.African Americans would sit at food counters for
long periods of time until they were noticed and
served food. These were called “Sit-In-Campaigns.”Martin Luther King went to President John F.
Kennedy to enact a second Emancipation
Proclamation to desegregate schools and
buildings, and basically gave rights to African
Americans.
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