African-american history Flashcards
January 1st , 1863
Abraham Lincoln, 16 th President of the United States, signs the Emancipation Proclamation, which declares all slaves
in the Confederacy free.
April 15th , 1865
Lincoln is assassinated by John Wikes Booth, an actor
and Southern sympathizer.
1860s-1964
Jim Crow Laws in the Southern states restrict most of the new privileges granted to African Americans after the Civil War(1861-1865).
December 1 st , 1955
Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up
her seat to a white passenger. Reverend Martin Luther King launches
the Civil Rights Movement.
BOYCOTTS
the successful Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama
SIT-INS
(the influential Greensborough sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina)
MARCHES
(Selma to Montgomery marches (1965)).
August 28th , 1963
MLK delivers his speech “I have A Dream” in front
of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom.
July 2nd , 1964
The Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination based on
race, color, religion; sex and national origin. It ended racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served
general public.
6th August 1965
THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 prohibits racial
discrimination in voting . It enforces the voting rights guaranteed by
the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US constitution. The African
Americans can vote
1968
THE FAIR HOUSING ACT 1968 is a federal act in the US intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination (because of color/ race/ religion/ sex/ and national origin).no discrimination if an African American wants to rent/dwell/buy an accommodation.
April 4th, 1968
MLK is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
November 2 nd , 1983
President R. Reagan signs a bill creating a
federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day. It is observed for the 1st time on January 17th 2000
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