Timeline
African-American history
Speech Martin Luther King jr.
"I have a dream"
Black Lives Matter Protests
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Craw laws were established within the 13.amandmend and legalized racial segregation
Enactment declaration of indipendence
The aim of the declaration was to seal the indipendace from the united kingdom. It addressed their failure to care about human rights and included the famous phrase "All men are created equal".
Revolutionary war
Many salves fled their Southern masters to join the British army due to their promise of freedom
American Civil War/War of Secession
War due to different opinions on slavery between southern (pro, due to their engagement in agriculture) and northern states (contra, more urbanized, industrial)
Lincoln was elected
South Carolina + ten states left Union > led to start of war
13th confederate amandment
Abolished slavery
Civil rights act
outlawed segregation in schools, public spaces and jobs
voting rights act
outlawed litreacy tests and simila tests, that had prevented many black people from voting
fair housing act
Barack obama
first black president of the USA
Start Bus Boycott
Rosa Park refused to give up her seat for a white man