Historical Timeline by Michael Anderson

1835

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"The Native Americans were forced westward across the Mississippi River in the tragic roundup known today as the Trail of Tears."

1865

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:53:35 UTC

"Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to help freed slaves with the transition to citizenship."

1866

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:53:41 UTC

"The law was amended to assist in the provision of Black schools. Many of the teachers in these schools were northern white women, often daughters of abolitionist families."

1868

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:53:47 UTC

"The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1868 made responsibility for civil rights a federal rather than a state function and, as a result, African Americans began to gain more access to public education."

1870

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:53:54 UTC

"Nearly 7,000 white and Black “schoolmarms” were teaching 250,000 Black students, and learning to cross the barriers of race and class that have characterized American history. The legacy of these teachers was enormous. Not only did they educate the children who later became the teachers in segregated schools, but they educated a generation of free Black leaders who are too seldom talked about today. (Hoffman, 2003)"

1882

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:53:59 UTC

"After 20,000 Chinese immigrants poured their life blood (often literally) in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the federal government prohibited by law the entry of Chinese people into the United States."

1896

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:54:04 UTC

"The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court held that segregation was not prohibited by the Constitution. Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the doctrine that “separate but equal” facilities for Blacks and whites were constitutionally permissible, justified separate (usually inferior) education of African American children in both the North and South."

1954

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:54:08 UTC

"Brown v. Board of Education made such unequal facilities illegal."

1964

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:54:13 UTC

"The Civil Rights Act (1964), which ended discrimination in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

1975

manderson818 — 2024-08-26 03:54:17 UTC

"The Education of All Handicapped Children Act (1975), requiring schools to assume the responsibility for educating all children in the least restrictive environment possible."