civil rights. african are being shipped to north america as slaves. 1600s
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The writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many representatives each state will have in Congress. three fifths 1787TRANSCRIPT
Civil Rights
African are being shipped to North America as slaves.
1600s
The writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many representatives each state will have in Congress.
1787
The Missouri Compromise allows the people in each state to vote on whether slavery should be legal in that state or not.
1820
Sojourner Truth escapes from slavery and begins fighting for the desegregation of buses in Washington D.C. and for women’s rights.
1826
Nat Turner sees a vision and hears voices telling him to fight against slavery by killing slave owners
1828
Frederick Douglass gives speeches and publishes a newspaper to encourage others to help fight against slavery.
1847
Harriet Tubman begins helping over 300 slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
1849
The Compromise of 1850 ends the slave trade to the United States, but allows slavery to continue.
1850
Dred Scott takes his case to win his freedom to the Supreme Court, and the court rules that slaves who escape to free states must be returned to their masters.
1857
Abraham Lincoln is elected the sixteenth President of the United States, and begins to work to keep the country together.
1860
The South breaks away from the North resulting in the civil war.
1861- 1865
1863
1865 1868 187013th Amendment: Ends slavery in the United States
14th Amendment: Makes all people born in the Untied States citizens
15th Amendment: Gives black men the right to vote
1868
Plessy vs. Ferguson
NAACP
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, the Supreme Court rules that separate schools for black and white students is unconstitutional.
1954
1955
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus, helping begin the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott to help end segregation on buses.
1957
The Little Rock Nine help integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School.
1957
1960
Ruby Bridges is one of the first black students to attend an all-white school.
1960
Greensboro Sit In
Black and white freedom riders travel into the south to see if they will be treated equally, and they are attacked by racists.
1961
President John F. Kennedy promises to end racial discrimination in his inaugural address.
1961
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" Speech in Washington, D.C.
1963
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Selma to Montgomery March
MLK assassinated