Events
Murder of George FloydEmmett TillBrown v. Board of EducationMarch on Washington for Jobs and FreedomCivil Rights Act of 1964Voting Rights Act of 1965Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.Fair Housing ActArrest of Rosa ParksPlessy v. Ferguson13th AmendmentMalcolm X - "The Ballot or the Bullet"Streetcar Segregation ActFirst Jim Crow streetcar laws
(Georgia)Kamala Harris becomes Vice PresidentBlack Panther PartyInaugration Barack ObamaFirst Africans in VirginiaEbonics Controversy ActMaynard Jackson becomes first black mayor of AtlantaLos Angeles riots"taking the knee"Stonewall RiotsBlack Lives Matter is foundedShirley ChisholmKendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime PerformanceAfrican American History Month becomes nationwide celebrationJuneteenth becomes Federal HolidayDeath of Crispus Attucks at Boston MassacreFirst published book of Afroamerican Woman Phillis WheatleySociety for the Relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondageElizabeth Key Court CaseSlave Revolt in New York CityVirgina Slave CodesPartus sequitur ventrem - a legal doctrinLegal Enslavement under Criminal LawLegal Enslavement under Civil LawTrump signs orders cracking down on diversity and inclusion at US universities14th Amendment15th AmendmentStono Rebellion – Slave Uprising in South CarolinaDeclaration of Independence & Slavery ContradictionsThree-Fifths CompromiseEnd of the Transatlantic Slave TradeEmancipation ProclamationSouthern Christian Leadership ConferenceParks Ride at the Front of the BusCivil Rights Act of 1957 SignedGreensboro Sit-ins beginFreedom Rides beginLoving v. Virginia Decision2500Francisco de Chicora"Birth of a Nation"Red SummerPublic Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us BackN.W.A – Straight Outta Compton2Pac – Me Against the WorldPeriods
CHAINS AND CHANGE
(Anglo-American colonial slavery)Sojourner TruthRosa Parks: The Woman behind the movementThe Montgomery Bus BoycottReconstruction eraStreetcar boycottPost-Civil Rights and Cultural ShiftsSetbacks and ResistanceHope and ContradictionIda B. WellsGreat Migration - Domestic RefugeesHip Hop as political voiceJim Crow LawsAmerican involvement WW1Fort Mosé – The First Free Black CommunityAbolitionist Movement GrowsThe Civil WarFROM DENIAL TO DEFIANCE: THE FIGHT FOR BLACK FREEDOM
(US slavery)Birmingham campaignSelma to Montgomery MarchesMass incarcerationRISE OF TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERYCIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTHarlem RenaissanceAmerican involvement WW2Nixon's War on Drugs
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