To kill a Mockingbird timeline by Demetra Edney https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78 en-us 2017-01-13 18:49:53 UTC 2026-01-25 02:04:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Africa Before American Slavery 99demedn29118 https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147127992 Before Slavery Africans were more into academics. Before they were enslaved they already knew how to read where as the other slaves could not read or write.]]> 2017-01-13 18:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147127992 July 9,1640(American Slavery) 99demedn29118 https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147131062 When three runaway slaves were captured, The General Court of Colonial Virginia gave the white slave owners additional years to serve while John Punch, a black man, was sentenced to slavery for life. Punch was the first black man to be enslaved for life. ]]> 2017-01-13 19:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147131062 American Reconstruction (1865-1877): March 1, 1875 99demedn29118 https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147132576 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which made it against the law to discriminate in public accommodations, including inns, theaters, public conveyances on land or water, and "other places of public amusement."]]> 2017-01-13 19:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147132576 Jim Crow Era origins (1878-1965) 99demedn29118 https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147133572 In 1882, at least 49 blacks were lynched. According to Tuskegee Institute data, 3,438 blacks were lynched between the years 1882 and 1951.

1883 October 15
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases of 1883 that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibited states, but not citizens, from discriminating. This civil rights reversal was devastating for African Americans.

1890-1908
Southern states adopted new constitutions and voting laws designed to disenfranchise black voters.

1892
Ida B. Wells began writing articles and campaigning against lynching. At least 161 blacks were lynched in 1892, probably the highest number in a single year.]]> 2017-01-13 19:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/99demedn29118/3l51sqd27v78/wish/147133572