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Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by
Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War
using his war powers. The Proclamation freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly
all the rest (of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced. The
Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw
slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens.




   Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential
   Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863
   Emancipation Proclamation.
   Henry Louis Stephens (1824–1882)
Emancipation Proclamation

The Proclamation applied only in ten states
that were still in rebellion in 1863, it did not
cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave-
holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky,
Maryland or Delaware) — those slaves were
freed by separate state and federal actions.
13th Amendment




Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and
ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th
amendment abolished slavery in the United
States and provides that "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.".
Reparations for slavery


Reparations for slavery are proposals that
compensation should be provided to
descendants of enslaved people in the
United States. In 1865 a temporary plan
granting each freed family forty acres and
unneeded mules where giving to settles of
South Carolina- around 40000 freed slaves.
However, President Andrew Johnson reverse
the order after Lincoln was assassination and
the land was returned to its previous
owners.
SEGREGATION 1896 - 1968
 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: This landmark Supreme
  Court decision holds that racial segregation is
  constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim
  Crow laws in the South.


 1909: The National Association for the Advancement
  of Coloured People is founded in New York by
  prominent black and white intellectuals. For the next
  half century, it would serve as the country's most
  influential African-American civil rights organization,
  dedicated to political equality and social justice in 1910.
 1914: Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro
  Improvement Association, an influential Black
  Nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race
  pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among
  blacks.


 1920s: The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the
  1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual
  movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's
  colour barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn
  Dodgers by Branch Rickey.


 1948: President Harry S. Truman issues an executive
  order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
 1952: Malcolm X becomes a minister of the Nation of
  Islam. Over the next several years his influence
  increases until he is one of the two most powerful
  members of the Black Muslims (the other was its
  leader, Elijah Muhammad). A Black Nationalist and
  separatist movement, the Nation of Islam contends
  that only blacks can resolve the problems of blacks.

 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
  declares that racial segregation in schools is
  unconstitutional (May 17).
 1955: A young black boy, Emmett Till, is brutally
  murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in
  Mississippi.
 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the
  "coloured section" of a bus to a white passenger.


 1957: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  (SCLC), a civil rights group, is established by Martin
  Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L.
  Shuttlesworth (Jan.-Feb.)
 1960: Four black students in Greensboro, North
  Carolina, begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's
  lunch counter (Feb. 1). Six months later the
  "Greensboro Four" are served lunch at the same
  Woolworth's counter. The event triggers many similar
  nonviolent protests throughout the South.


 1962: James Meredith becomes the first black student
  to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
 1963: Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during
  anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama.


 1964: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights
  Act, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since
  Reconstruction. It prohibits discrimination of all kinds
  based on race, colour, religion, or national origin.
 Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
 1965: Malcolm X, Black Nationalist and founder of
  the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is
  assassinated.

 1966: The Black Panthers are founded by Huey
  Newton and Bobby Seale.
Mildred Jeter and
                                             Richard Loving
                                             appealed against
                                             the Supreme court
                                             to overrule the
                                             interracial
                                             marriage ban.




 1967: Major race riots take place in Newark (July 12-
  16) and Detroit (July 23-30).
 President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to the
  Supreme Court. He becomes the first black Supreme
  Court Justice.
 The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that
  prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.
 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in
  Memphis, Tenn. (April 4).
 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of
  1968, prohibiting discrimination in the
  sale, rental, and financing of housing.
Timeline of facts: Black American History
Black Americans had to 'fight' for their right to equality. In the 1950s a Baptist
   preacher named Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights
   Movement. He believed that peaceful protest was the way forward
   In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation
   cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In 1954 the
   court decreed that segregation was unconstitutional.




    In Minnesota, the struggle was headed by leaders of the African-
    American communities, including, among others, Fredrick L.
    McGhee, the Reverend Denzil A. Carty, Nellie Stone Johnson, and
    Harry Davis; by ministers and congregations of black churches; by
    editors and publishers of black newspapers; by racial, interracial, and
    interdenominational organizations; and by orchestrated legal
    challenges in the courts
technological inno- vations in portable cameras and
electronic news gathering (ENG) equipment increasingly
enabled television to bring the non-violent civil
disobedience campaign of the Civil Rights Movement and
the violent reprisals of Southern law enforcement agents to a
new mass audience.

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Timeline of facts: Black American History

  • 1. Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. The Proclamation freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest (of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens. Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Henry Louis Stephens (1824–1882)
  • 2. Emancipation Proclamation The Proclamation applied only in ten states that were still in rebellion in 1863, it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave- holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware) — those slaves were freed by separate state and federal actions.
  • 3. 13th Amendment Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
  • 4. Reparations for slavery Reparations for slavery are proposals that compensation should be provided to descendants of enslaved people in the United States. In 1865 a temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres and unneeded mules where giving to settles of South Carolina- around 40000 freed slaves. However, President Andrew Johnson reverse the order after Lincoln was assassination and the land was returned to its previous owners.
  • 6.  1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow laws in the South.  1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People is founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals. For the next half century, it would serve as the country's most influential African-American civil rights organization, dedicated to political equality and social justice in 1910.
  • 7.  1914: Marcus Garvey establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an influential Black Nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among blacks.  1920s: The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
  • 8.  1947: Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's colour barrier when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey.  1948: President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
  • 9.  1952: Malcolm X becomes a minister of the Nation of Islam. Over the next several years his influence increases until he is one of the two most powerful members of the Black Muslims (the other was its leader, Elijah Muhammad). A Black Nationalist and separatist movement, the Nation of Islam contends that only blacks can resolve the problems of blacks.  1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May 17).
  • 10.  1955: A young black boy, Emmett Till, is brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.  Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "coloured section" of a bus to a white passenger.  1957: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a civil rights group, is established by Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth (Jan.-Feb.)
  • 11.  1960: Four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter (Feb. 1). Six months later the "Greensboro Four" are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South.  1962: James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
  • 12.  1963: Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama.  1964: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, colour, religion, or national origin.  Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 13.  1965: Malcolm X, Black Nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assassinated.  1966: The Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
  • 14. Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving appealed against the Supreme court to overrule the interracial marriage ban.  1967: Major race riots take place in Newark (July 12- 16) and Detroit (July 23-30).  President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. He becomes the first black Supreme Court Justice.  The Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.
  • 15.  1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. (April 4).  President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
  • 17. Black Americans had to 'fight' for their right to equality. In the 1950s a Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He believed that peaceful protest was the way forward In 1952, the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In 1954 the court decreed that segregation was unconstitutional. In Minnesota, the struggle was headed by leaders of the African- American communities, including, among others, Fredrick L. McGhee, the Reverend Denzil A. Carty, Nellie Stone Johnson, and Harry Davis; by ministers and congregations of black churches; by editors and publishers of black newspapers; by racial, interracial, and interdenominational organizations; and by orchestrated legal challenges in the courts
  • 18. technological inno- vations in portable cameras and electronic news gathering (ENG) equipment increasingly enabled television to bring the non-violent civil disobedience campaign of the Civil Rights Movement and the violent reprisals of Southern law enforcement agents to a new mass audience.