1600s
This is the year the first African slaves were brought to America.
What is 1619?
He was the first American to be killed in the Boston Massacre and therefore considered to be the first death of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this series of installments in an abolitionist weekly later became a novel. A story of a slave who was sold and resold and another who flees in order to save her child became credited with shaping perceptions leading to the Civil War
Uncle Tom's Cabin
He is known for his famous “I have a dream speech”
Martini Luther King Jr
Who was the first African American woman to win an Oscar for her role in Monster’s Ball in 2002.
Who is Halle Berry?
This is the settlement of the American Colonies where slavery began.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This ordinance prohibited slavery in the territories acquired between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the year 1787.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This person is the author of Narrative of the Life of ________, An American Slave, written by himself. Was also an advocate of enlisting in the Union Army.
Frederick Douglass
What came from the case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
Supreme Court made segregation illegal in public schools
Who won the presidential election in 2008 making him the first African American man to hold this position.
Who is Barack Obama?
This was the first colony to pass a law against interracial marriage in 1664.
What is Maryland?
In 1780, this state became the first to abolish slavery.
What is Pennsylvania?
This Legislation simultaneously admitted Missouri and Maine as slave and non-slave states respectively. Also outlawing slavery above the 36 30 latitude line.
The Missouri Compromise
President Johnson signed what important act into law in 1965
Voting Rights Act
In January 2021, this person became the first woman and first woman of color to become vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
In this year, Connecticut made it a law that African Americans could not serve in the militia.
What is 1660?
This was the first published African American writer.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This was the first African American newspaper in America. March 16th 1827
Freedom's Journal
What took place February 1st 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina
Four college students took a stand against segregation when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served
In 2001, George W. Bush appointed this person as secretary of state, making him the first African American to serve as America’s top diplomat.
Who is Colin Powell?
In 1663, this colony ruled that all Africans arriving into their colony were presumed to be slaves.
What is Maryland?
The year Sojourner Truth was born.
What is 1797?
A court case in St. Louis city court where the odds were heavily in the favor of those suing. The reason for the lawsuit was that they had been living in bondage in a free territory and are now claiming their freedom upon the death of their owner.
Dred Scott v Sanford
When and where was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr assassinated
April 4, 1968 on his hotel room’s balcony
This movement was formed with the mission to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.”
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?