• 1863 – Born in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1880 – Met Frederick Douglass at President James Garfield’s Inauguration
• 1884 – Graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio
• 1885 – Began teaching at Wilberforce University
• 1888 – Graduated with a Master’s degree in Education from Oberlin College
• 1895 – Moves to Washington, D.C. to teach in the Latin Department of the M Street School
• 1896 – Founder of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW); served as first president until 1901
• 1897 – Created Douglass Day
• 1904 – Published “Lynching from a Negro’s Point of View” in the North American Review
• 1909 – Charter member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• 1928 – Published “Phyllis Wheatley—An African Genius” in the Star of the West.
• 1940 – Published her autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World
• 1948 – Awarded an honorary doctorate by Oberlin College
• 1950 – An 86-year-old Terrell protested segregated restaurants in Washington, D.C.
• 1954 – Passed away in Annapolis, Maryland

• Born as Araminta Ross
• Born between 1820 and 1821 into slavery in Buckland, Eastern Maryland
• Helped to find a cure for dysentery by using her knowledge of the flora and fauna
• Never received regular salary and was denied veterans compensation 
• Active proponent of women’s suffrage
• Died at an age of 91 in 1913 in the “home of Aged“ she founded herself 
• She was buried with full military honours at Forth Hill Cemetery in New York 

• Suffered severe head injury -> vivid dreams
• Interpreted as visions from God which guided her on many rescue trips to lead other slaves to freedom
• Escaped slavery in 1849 by using the Underground Railroad

• Nicknamed “Moses“ because she never lost one of the slaves she lead to freedom
• She was wanted with her head being worth $330,000.00
• She was desperate to serve everyone

“You go on or you die“

• To avert being captured she used coded messages for fellow travellers
• She assisted in recruiting supporters for an attack on slave holders

• Named after a Black minstrel show character, the law which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968
• meant to marginalize African-Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. 
• Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws often faced arrest,
• fines, jail sentences, violence and death. 
• Racial seggregation was done in schools, restaurants, busses, bathrooms, hotels, work etc. Black codes were strict local and state laws that detailed when, where and how formerly enslaved people could work, and for how much compensation. The codes appeared throughout the South as a legal way to put Black citizens into indentured servitude, to take voting rights away, to control where they lived and how they traveled and to seize children for labor purposes. 
• most ruthless organization of the Jim Crow era: Ku Klux Klan, was born in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a private club for Confederate veterans.The KKK grew into a secret society terrorizing Black communities and seeping through white Southern culture, with members at the highest levels of government and in the lowest echelons of criminal back alleys.