...uth.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1808SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Congress passes a la making it illegal to import slaves, but it is generally ignored.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1820SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Slavery is declared legal in the South, but illegal in all states north of Missouri.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1861SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States. the number of slaves in tpar the USA has reached 4 million. Eleven southern slave states leave the Union, tpar afraid that Abraham Lincoln ill abolish slavery, hich is the basis of their tpar economy. The Civil ar breaks out.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1865SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar The North defeats the South. Slaves are freed throughout the nation.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1868SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Blacks offically become American citizens. But it is made difficult if not impossible tpar for blacks to vote in the South.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1896SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar The Supreme Court says any state can have facilities for blacks and hites, as long as tpar they are separate, but equal. In some southern states there are separate schools tpar for blacks and hites, separate theathres, restaurants, hotels, taxis, and seats on buses.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 From 1919 ontpar SItfs24tcgrid0 Thousands of blacks move to the cities in the North, looking for ork.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1954SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar The Supreme Court changes its 1896 decision and orders every state to desegregate its schools. Some areas in the South dontb4t accept this.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1963SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Dr Martin Luther King leads 250,000 people to ashington, D.C. in the largest protest march in US history so far. His speech marks a climax of the Civil Rights movement. Civil Roghts leaders meet President Kennedy in the hite house.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1964SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Congree passes a Civil Rights la, hich makes discrimmination illegal in hotels, restaurants and important fields of employment.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1965SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Congess ends voting discrimmination, so that all blacks are finally able to vote.SItbtfs24tcgrid0 tpar 1968SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Martin Luther King in assassinated. Riots break out in major American cities.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1973SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar For the first time, a black becomes mayor of a large city. Thomas Bradley is elected mayor of Los Angeles.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1987SItfs24tcgrid0 tpar Yvonne Miller becomes Virginiatb4s first black female senator.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1988tpar SItfs24tcgrid0 Jesse Jackson is the first black ith a serious chance of being chosen as a candidate for President.tpar SItbtfs24tcgrid0 1990tpar SItfs24tcgrid0 Douglas ilder, grandson of slaves , becomes Governor of Virginia. he is the first black governor in US history.tpar SS...
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