https://padlet.com/cornel_borit/3SAE Timeline en-us 2018-01-07 14:53:51 UTC 2025-12-07 13:18:13 UTC hello@padlet.com cornel_borit https://padlet.com/cornel_borit/3SAE/wish/219154446 1619
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]]> 2018-01-07 14:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cornel_borit/3SAE/wish/219154446 https://padlet.com/cornel_borit/3SAE/wish/219239277 1619 - a dutch trader brought the first african american to jamestown (virginia) by a slave ship

1787 - slavery was accepted by the Consitution, and an idealistic movement developed in the north which wished to abolish slavery

1808 - the slave trade was outlawed and between 10 to 15 million africans were kidnapped and forced into slavery in the enflish colonies of north america

1861 - civile war started and abraham lincoln was elected  as the president

1865 - the abolition of slavery and  the freedmen's bureau was established

1877 - the reconstruction was over

1896 - the supreme court adopts an amendments that legalised the system based on the statement "separate but equal"

1909 - the founding of the national association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)

1920s  - the 19th amendment  to the U.S constitution is ratified, this amendment gave the women the right to vote. however african-american women resideing in th souther states are barred from voting through poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses

1948 - the segregation in the armed forces ended

1954 - african-american civil rights movement started. surpreme court decided to declare that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional

1963 - 250 000 protesters took part in the march on washington, the occation of martin luther king's great speech "i have a dream"

1964 -  the civile rights act was passed, which gave all blacks legal and political equality, ending segregation forever

1968 - marked the end of the non-violent movement that begun in the 1950s, martin luther king was assassinated

1992 - los angeles riots also known as the rodney king riots, the south carolina riots.

2001 - colin powell became the first african-american secretary of state

2008 - barack obama became he first african-american president in the united states of america

2014 - the year police brutality went viral in furgeson, because of the death of erik garner by the NYPD



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