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Timeline of significant events in black American history

1619 The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.

1861 The Confederacy is founded when the South secedes from the United States. Civil War begins.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in Confederate states free.

1865 The civil war ends. Lincoln is assassinated. The 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws slavery.

1868 The 14th amendment grants full citizenship to all African-Americans.

1870 The right to vote is given to black males.

1896 The Supreme Court holds racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for segregation in the South.

1954 Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision declares segregation in schools unconstitutional.

1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her arrest sparks a successful year-long boycott led by Martin Luther King to desegregate the city's buses.

1963 King is jailed during civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala. Delivers "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington.

1964 President Lyndon Johnson signs Civil Rights Act. King wins Nobel Peace Prize.

1965 Civil rights leader Malcolm X is murdered. Congress passes the Voting Rights Act.

1966 Edward Brooke of Massachusetts is elected the first black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War.

1967 Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, making him the first black Supreme Court Justice.

1968 King is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.

Tuskegee Airmen look back on life in a segregated military

By Travis Reed  Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Even though they were treated like second-class citizens as black pilots in a segregated military during World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen proved their mettle in the skies.

The airmen never lost a plane under escort to enemy fighters, developing such a reputation that some German pilots stopped pursuing American planes they knew would be escorted by the scrappy airmen. More...

 


 

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