Important dates in black American history

Let my people go; Black America

In my blog assignment I have decided to write about some of the important dates in black history. I think this is good because then I can learn about the big moments

What happened when?
1619 – The first slave ship came to Jamestown. From 1691 to 1808 when the slave trade was outlawed, 10 to 15 million Africans were kidnapped and forces into slavery in the English colonies of North America. The slavery in America begins

1787 – Abolitionism started in the North America. It was an idealistic movement developed in the North where they wished to abolish the slavery.

1861 – The civil war breaks out between the North and the South in 1861. The North stated wanted to free the slaves. The south states people needed the slaves to work in farms, and they were strongly against letting them go. Many Northerners believed in the humanity of black people, few believed in their equality.

1865 – Freedmen’s Bureau was established. It was established to guide the newly freed blacks to self-sufficiency.

1877 – By this time the north had grown tired of trying to reform the South. The government was handed back to the local authorities. This was bad for the earlier slaves because many of the civil rights the African Americans had gained where taken away by the local authorities. New laws where called Jim Crow laws. They laws said that blacks could not vote, marry whites or mix with whites in public places. It they protested they risked being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan.

1896 – Separate but equal was accepted by the Supreme Court. The African American were forced to accept second class citizenship for another century.

1909 – W.E.B Du Bois, a black Harward professor, disagreed with Washington.
Without legal and political rights, he argued, equality was not possible.
He helped found: NAACP = Nationl Association for the Advanced of Colored People.

1948 – Segregation ended in the armed forces. This was a great step forward.

1954 – The Supreme Court struck down on their earlier decision that separate but equal was unconstitutional.

1964 – The Civil rights Act was passe. This law finally gave all blacks legal and political equality, ending segregation forever.

1968 – The assassination of Martin Luther King. This marked the end of the non-violent movement that had begun in the 1950s.