Event Date Description Civil War 1861-1865 The election of anti-slavery president Abraham Lincoln caused southern states to separate from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. Reconstruction 1866-1877...
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Sit-In Movement
Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in which African Americans refused to ride buses...
Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
