African Americans

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1619:The first African American slave arrives in Virginia
• 1808:Congress bans the importation of slaves from africa
• 1820:The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
• 1849:Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad.

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1863:President Lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation,declaring 'that all people held as slaves' within the confederate states 'are, and hence forward shall be free
• 1865: The kkk was found on December 24, 1865

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1954: in Brown v. Board of education of Topeka Kansas, the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation, overturning it's 1896 decision in plessy v. Ferguson

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white person, triggering a successful, year-long African American boycott of the bus system.

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1957: The reverend Martin Luther king jr. ,helps found the southern Christian leadership conference to work for full equality for African Americans.

AFRICAN AMERICAN TIMELINE

• 1957:For the first time since reconstruction, the federal government uses the military to uphold African American' civil rights, as soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate a school in little rock, Arkansas. Daisy bates, an nnacp leader, advised and assisted the students and eventually had a state holiday dedicated to her.

PEOPLE THAT MADE HUGE IMPACTS

• Martin Luther king jr.
• Malcolm X
• Rosa parks
• Emmit till
• Harriet Tubman
• Little rock nine

TWO LEADERS THAT FOUGHT FOR THIER FREEDOM

GROUP AGAINST THEM

ECONOMY

• More African Americans had more access to more jobs which led to more money and it help them so the economy was good for African Americans

HOW MUCH PEOPLE DIED OR GOT HURT?

WHAT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED?

• Rights to life
• Rights to liberty
• Rights to security of a person
• Rights to education

STRATEGIES THEY USED?

• Sit ins
• Bus boycott
• Marches
• Meetings
• Peaceful protest

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html
• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtimeline.html
• http://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history-timeline-home-page