M483 Timeline
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Updated: 19 Sep 2022
This timeline is to note the important events learned in M403, Fall 2022.
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Created byKathryn Engebretson
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US Declaration of IndependenceCivil Rights Act of 1964Thomas Jefferson and John Adams DieAdvancements in PrintingFirst Case of Europeans taking Africans as SlavesDynamite HillFrederick Douglass publishes "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"The war on drugs begins.1840 Census ReportMalcom X AssassinationPublishing of The Chronicles of Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de ZuraraUncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is publishedVoting Rights Act of 1965Haitian RevolutionPlanned Revolt FailsObama is inaugurated as president.Lincoln is elected PresidentEmancipation Proclamantion is issuedCurse Theory to justify enslavementJohn F. Kennedy AssassinationLincoln is assassinatedZurara wrote a book about Prince Henry witnessing a slave auctionFifteenth Amendment ratifiedPennsylvania Mennonites vs. Racist normsMissouri CompromiseRodney King is beaten by LAPD officers.William Perkins wrote "Ordering a Family" and argued that slaves were a cherished part of the loving familyAmerican Anti-Slavery Society DisbandedStokely Carmichael coined the term "Black Power"Pirates sell African slaves in Jamestown, VirginiaEmmet Till is murderedBacon's RebellionJonathan Jackson Courtroom MurdersPuritans John Cotton and Richard Mather bring the Puritan faith to North AmericaAngela Davis Charged With MurderVoting Rights Act of 1965Million Man MarchSeptember 11 AttacksNo Child Behind Act signed into lawPhyllis Wheatley Published her book "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"Formation of Harlem RenisancRoosevelt DeathShelley v KraemerBrown v Board of EducationNon violent sit ins kick offMLK I have a Dream SpeechJim Crow Laws into effectFrederick Douglass's DeathBirth of W.E.B. Du Bois"The Birth of a nation" film based on book called "the clansman""The Red Summer" named after incredible violence that was seen from Old WhitesResistant group of artists known as the Niggerati FormedDu Bois moves towards preaching ideas from carl Marx to the NAACP after change in leadership of the groupWorld War IITruman Urge congress to implement civil rights even with lack of supportSpike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" is relaesedThe Christian Directory by Richard BaxterMurder of George FloydAngela Davis Arrested for MurderAngela Davis Was Freed From JailUplift Suasion becomes a thingBlack Panther Party founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby SealeBlack Teenagers of Birmingham attacked by bull Connor and the whole world watchesEmergence of Hip HopPlanet of the Apes was releasedRodney King and Anita HillBoys N the Hood Release3/5 compromiseN.W.A releases "F*%k Tha Police"Slave Songs of the United States PublishedFranz Boas spoke at Atlanta UniversityPamphlet published by Ida B Wells-Barnett titled "southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"Rocky is released1914 WW1 began and 1/3 of all Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe had emigrated.takaki , Chinese / American workers build Transcontinental RailroadTakaki, Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoTakaki, Massacre at the Wounded KneeTakaki, Naturalisation actPearl Harbor AttackedJews at Ellis Island and New YorkCirca year 1000 Norseman (vikings from Greenland) Arrive on the eastern coast of CanadaHitler comes to power in Germany1914 WW1 began and 1/3 of all Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe had emigrated.Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire1492 = Christopher Columbus's accidental arrival to North AmericaBacon's RebellionFirst shipment of Tobacco arrived in London from VirginiaVirginia legislature passes a law allowing for slaverySan Joaquin Valley Strike2mil Blacks in the North by 1930Chicago racial bombingsEnglish colonists settled in VirginiaThousands of Irish sign antislavery petition that called Black Americans their equals and brothersEnglish Colonists settle in MassachusettsQuota System was adoptedIrish rioters turned on Black Americans in New York CityChinese Exclusion Act of 1882Three runaway servants were captured and returned to masters.Law passed which defines slaves as propertyThe Nine Years War begins in IrelandIrish women outnumbered Irish men in New York City. 117,000 to 87,0001606 contract with the Virginia CompanyTakaki, California state Supreme Court ruled "Chinese and other people not white" could not give evidence against whites in courtTakaki, 1877-1881 Rutherford B Hayes president.Chief Lone Wolf of the Kiowa, requires deals involving land must go through the whole tribleTakaki, Exclusion Act RenewedTakaki, Civil rights actTakaki, US has been completely settledTakaki, Dawes Act is PassedJapanese Strike of 19091934 by a new law called the Indian Reorganization ActNavajo surrenderedPequot WarThomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia publishedThomas Jefferson sends note to friend wanting the abolition of the condition of slaveryVictory over Japan (V-J Day)Congress issues apology and reparations for survivors of Japanese internmentMexican Americans create the civil rights organization called the G.I. Forum in Corpus Christi, TexasMendez v. Westminster court case decidedRosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a segregated busRonald Takaki publishes his magnum opus, "A Different Mirror for Young People"Slave work was desperately needed and the US turned to Africa for its labor1790 Naturalization Act: only white immigrants can apply for citizenshipAll Puerto Ricans got citizenship but still could not voteMexican and Japanese farm laborers went on strikePeriods
US Involvement in Vietnam WarCivil Rights MovementPhyllis Wheatley's LifeThomas Jefferson becomes presidentAmerican Civil WarPush for Black Studies Departments at UniversitiesBLM MovementRevolutionary WarReaganismUnited Nations World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related IntoleranceRed summerPolygenesis theory created?Polygenesis theory began being "supported by science"Black Lives Matter ProtestsOJ Simpson TrialThe First KlanSalem Witch Trials (the devil is portrayed as a small black man)Second KlanWorld War IIJews fleeing Russian pogroms and immigrating to AmericaMexican revolutionA million Irish came to AmericaThe Great Famine (the Potato Famine)An example of a time spanHarlem RenaissanceThe Great StrikeManhattan ProjectJews began to leave the Lower East SideVirginia class warPopulation of JamestownU.S. involvement in the Korean Police ActionIn 1619 A Dutch Slave Ship came to the US with the first 20 slaves.more than 120,000 Japanese people were sent to internment camps and were treated like prisoners
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