Black History Timeline
This institution began in the US in 1619 when men, women and children were taken from their home in Africa and brought over to the shores of America.
What is Slavery?
This Constitutional Amendment was passed before Jesse Owens’ birth, but did not protect him from racial discrimination in real life?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This African American surgical technician, despite not having a formal medical degree, pioneered techniques to treat “blue baby syndrome” and trained many of the nation’s top heart surgeons.
Who is Vivien Thomas?
Before Rosa Parks, this brave 15-year-old girl was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The experiment where children were grouped by eye color to teach discrimination was featured in this documentary.
What is A Class Divided?
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth are figures during this movement...
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
At just six years old, she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, escorted by U.S. marshals due to threats and protests.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This type of racial segregation, enforced by local laws and customs, required Black Americans to use separate public facilities from white Americans, including schools, transportation, and restaurants.
What is “separate but equal”?
This nonviolent method, used in Greensboro in 1960, involved Black students peacefully occupying segregated lunch counters to demand equal service.
What are sit-ins?
This term refers to the act of freeing someone from slavery, famously declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
What is Emancipation?
The right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude was the content of which Amendment
What is the 15th?
In 1957, this group of brave African American students integrated Central High School in Arkansas under the protection of federal troops, becoming national symbols of the fight for school desegregation.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Name one method used to deny African-Americans the right to vote after the 15th Amendment was passed?
What is literacy tests or poll taxes?
This 1955 event began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking a year-long boycott that became a major moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This era followed Reconstruction and was marked by laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He wrote the powerful “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in 1963, defending nonviolent protest and urging clergy to support the civil rights movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Passed in 1965, this law aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This period followed the Civil War and focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into American society.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
In this 1857 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court, intensifying national tensions over slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This 1999 film depicts the struggles of young African American students during the Civil Rights Movement, particularly focusing on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches, highlighting the bravery of a young girl and her community in their fight for voting rights.
What is Selma, Lord, Selma?
This organization, founded in 1909, fought Jim Crow laws through legal challenges and helped win the Brown v. Board of Education case.
What is the NAACP?
This event sparked national outrage and helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement in 1955
What is the murder of Emmett Till?