The History Behind Obama

We should appreciate the history happening around us right now. Historical Timeline:

1517- Spain begins black plantation slavery (slave trade).
1619 - Slaves arrive in Jamestown.
1787 - U.S. Constitution defines and establishes legal slavery.
1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act, allows returning slaves to their owner,
even if found in non-slave states.
1857 - The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision which has the effect
of legalizing slavery in all the states.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected President.
1861-1865 - The American Civil War.
1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the
Confederate states in rebellion.
1860's - The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments effectively legal
slavery.
1877 - Reconstruction officially ends in the South, allowing anti-negro laws to
re-emerge in force. Jim Crow laws and the KKK arise as well.
1896 - The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case allows
segregated schools.
1925 - KKK members number well over 1,000,000 in the US. A
parade of 50,000 members marched in Washington, D.C.
1947 - Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in Major League
Baseball.
1948 - Armed Forces integrated.
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education declares school segregation
illegal.
1961 - Barack Obama born.
1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; "I Have a Dream" speech.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act is signed into law by President Johnson.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act is signed into law.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American
Supreme Court Justice.
1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated.
2008 - Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American nominee
for President.

Photo prise le 2 juin 2008 (© Tony the Misfit / Flickr)

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