African-American HistoryPre-1930s

Julie Duignan

Three-Fifths Compromise

1787 Three-fifths of the state’s slaves to be

counted in to population for purposes of taxation and representation

Missouri Compromise

1820 Bans slavery north of

Missouri

The Dred Scott Case

1857 Holds that Congress

does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens

The Emancipation Proclamation

1863 President Lincoln issues

declaring, "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines

Freedman’s Bureau

March 1865 Established by

Congress to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks

Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War

A racist political cartoon that attacked Radical Republicans during the election of 1866.

Thirteenth Amendment

December 6, 1865 Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

Civil Rights Act of 1866

April 8, 1866 African Americans citizenship forbidding states to

pass discriminatory laws. These laws specifically targeted black codes,

laws that severely restricted African American’s lives such as prohibiting activities such as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, marrying whites, and in some cases, owning land.

Fourteenth Amendment

1868 Provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights

Act. This Amendment made “all persons born or

naturalized in the United States” citizens of the country. Now, all former slaves born in the U.S. received equal protection of the law this was no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property with process of law.

Fifteenth Amendment

1870 Prohibited the denial of voting rights to people

because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

Jim Crow Laws

1876 Laws enacted by

Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896 This landmark Supreme Court decision holds

that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow Laws in the South.

“Separate but Equal”

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

(NAACP)

1909 Organization founded to

promote full racial equality Founded in New York by

prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. DuBois. For the next half century, it would serve as the country's most influential African-American civil rights organization, dedicated to political equality and social justice

Works Cited

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Brunner, Borguna. "African-American History Timeline A Chronology of Black History from the Early Slave Trade through Affirmative Action." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2012. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtimeline.html>.