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frise chronologique Timeline of African - American History

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1868: 14th amendment to Constitution grants citizenship to former slaves. 1870: 15th amendment to Constitution prohibits states from denying the right to vote because of race.

1861-1865: Secession War or Civil War which opposed the southern states to the northern states because of a disagreement on the issue of slavery. (December 6, 1865 abolition of slavery by 13th amendment to Constitution in the United States).

1527: Estevanico was a muslin slave of Andres Dorantes de Carranza from Northern Africa and traveled with him in exploring the Southwestern US.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama

1777-1783: Several states in the United States have abolished slavery such as Vermont, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

1909 : fondation du National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

1986: Martin Luther King Jr. Day is declared a national holiday in the U.S.

2013: fondation of Black Lives Matter.

1861: Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US. 1865: He is assassinated.

1963: Dr. King gives "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Blacks are gaining more and more rights and opportunities to do things like Jackie Robinson is the first black man to play major league baseball (1947),..

1619: The first africans slaves are brought to in Virginia by british colonies.

1968 Dr. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

1808: Abolition of the slave trade in the United States.

2009: Barack Obama became President of the USA.

1876: Adoption of the Jim Crow laws by the southern states.

1866: Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan by Pulaski's army.