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A chronology of Afro-American history

year

Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin greatly increases the demand for slave labor.
1793

• Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
1808

Frederick Douglass launches his abolitionist newspaper
1846

Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions.
1854

beginsCivil War .
1861

Proclamation President LincolnEmancipation issues the, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
1863

Congress establishes the Freedmen's Bureau to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks (March).
The Civil War ends (April 9).
Lincoln is assassinated (April 14).
1865

Howard University's law school becomes the country's first black law school
1869

The Black Exodus takes place to Kansas. 1879

The Harlem Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity 1920s


Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women. Although the evidence was slim, the southern jury sentenced them to death. The Supreme Court overturns their convictions twice; each time Alabama retries them, finding them guilty. In a third trial, four of the Scottsboro boys are freed; but five are sentenced to long prison terms 1931

Although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
1948

young black boy is brutally murdered, Emmett Till , for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Two white men charged with the crime are acquitted by an all-white jury 1955

signs the Civil Rights Act Johnson President
1964

The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African-American Rodney King (April 29).

1992

Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African American to be nominated as a major party nominee for president.
On November 4, Barack Obama, becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain.
2008



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