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Slaves First arrive in Virginia
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Massachusetts first colony to legalize slavery
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Slavery is legally recongnized asn an institution in British America
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Slaves beegan to be describe as real estate
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Slave revolt takes place in New York, 9 whites killed
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Slave named cato leads slave revolt in South Carolina
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Massachusetts slaves petition the legislature for freedom
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Start of the underground Railroad
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Missouri Compromise
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Slavery ended in New England
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4-5,000 Blacks march in Washington, D.C celebrating the end of slavery
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15th Amendment approved, granting blacks the right to vote
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Civil Rights Act of 1875 overturned
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African Americans disenfranchised
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Race Riot
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NAACP is formed
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Federal Segregation
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her bus seat
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, organizes the "Montgomery Bus Boycott"
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Woolworth's Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, by students from Tougaloo College to protest segregated restaurants
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 in effect
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Malcolm X is assassinated
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Voting Rights Act is placed in effect
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All forms of segregation is declared unconstitutional
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is Assassinated
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History is made in the United States. The first black president Barack Obama is elected into office
