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African-American History Pre -1930s

African-American History Pre -1930s. Julie Duignan. Three-Fifths Compromise. 1787 Three-fifths of the state’s slaves to be counted in to population for purposes of taxation and representation. Missouri Compromise. 1820 Bans slavery north of Missouri. The Dred Scott Case. 1857

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African-American History Pre -1930s

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  1. African-American HistoryPre-1930s Julie Duignan

  2. Three-Fifths Compromise • 1787 • Three-fifths of the state’s slaves to be counted in to population for purposes of taxation and representation

  3. Missouri Compromise • 1820 • Bans slavery north of Missouri

  4. The Dred Scott Case • 1857 • Holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens

  5. The Emancipation Proclamation • 1863 • President Lincoln issues declaring, "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate states "are, and henceforward shall be free." • Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines

  6. Freedman’s Bureau • March 1865 • Established by Congress to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks • Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War A racist political cartoon that attacked Radical Republicans during the election of 1866.

  7. Thirteenth Amendment • December 6, 1865 • Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

  8. Civil Rights Act of 1866 • April 8, 1866 • African Americans citizenship forbidding states to pass discriminatory laws. • These laws specifically targeted black codes, laws that severely restricted African American’s lives such as prohibiting activities such as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, marrying whites, and in some cases, owning land.

  9. Fourteenth Amendment • 1868 • Provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act. • This Amendment made “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” citizens of the country. Now, all former slaves born in the U.S. received equal protection of the law this was no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property with process of law.

  10. Fifteenth Amendment • 1870 • Prohibited the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

  11. Jim Crow Laws • 1876 • Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities

  12. Plessy v. Ferguson • 1896 • This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segregation is constitutional, paving the way for the repressive Jim Crow Laws in the South. • “Separate but Equal”

  13. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • 1909 • Organization founded to promote full racial equality • Founded in New York by prominent black and white intellectuals and led by W.E.B. DuBois. 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

  14. Works Cited Klor De Alva, J. Jorge, Larry S. Krieger, Louis E. Wilson, and Nancy Woloch. "Chapter 12: Section 1&2." The Americans. By Gerald A. Danzer. Evanston, Illinois, Boston, Dallas: McDougal Little, 2003. 379-87. Print. Brunner, Borguna. "African-American History Timeline A Chronology of Black History from the Early Slave Trade through Affirmative Action." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2012. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtimeline.html>.

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