Event Date Description Civil War 1861-1865 The election of anti-slavery president Abraham...
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Jim Crow Laws
What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education is a landmark case in the African American struggle against segregation...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in which African Americans refused to ride buses...
Sit-In Movement
Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...
Freedom Rides
In March 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to test the Boynton v. Virginia...
James Meredith and Ole Miss
James Meredith was born in Mississippi on June 23, 1933. He served in the Air Force from...