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Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year old was shot and killed in Ferguson. The grand jury made the decision not to indict the police officer who shot Mr. Brown, and this choice triggered tons of protest in the city of Ferguson and other cities around the U.S.

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The movement “Black Lives Matter” is established.

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Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president and the country’s 44th president.

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Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African-American female billionaire.

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First African-American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford Jr., gets sent into outer space.

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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated outside his motel room.

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The militant party “Black Panthers”, a self-defense group which fought against the local police, were founded in Oakland.

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Malcolm X, a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assasinated.

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Martin Luther King Jr. held one of the most popular speeches in history because of the quotation “I have a dream”.

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The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American, was enrolled in Little Rock Central High School which were an all-white high school in the U.S. Their entry was later on blocked, but a month later president Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the girls into the school.

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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger in a bus in Alabama. Ms. Parks becomes a symbol on the African-Americans fight towards civil rights. The whole situation led up to a 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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The African American civil rights movement is established.

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Slavery comes to North America.

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NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded. The mission of NAACP is to ensure political, educational, social and economic equality of right of African-American people.

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The 13th Amendment (amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime) was officially adopted into the Constitution – 246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans were brought to Virginia and bought as slaves.

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Alabama becomes the 27th state to ratify the 13th Amendment.

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The House of Representatives pass the amendment with a two-thirds democratic majority.

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Two-thirds of the Republican Senate passed the amendment.

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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and called on the Union army to liberate all slaves in states still in rebellion as “an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity.”

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Congress annulled the fugitive slave laws, prohibited slavery in the U.S. territories, and authorized Lincoln to employ freed slaves in the army.

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The Civil War began and four more Southern states joined the Confederacy while four border slave states in the upper south remained part of the union.

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Lincoln gets elected as president and signalises the secession of seven Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.

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Rise of the cotton industry.