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January 29, 2021
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— Dates that have shapeD american history —

• JAN 22, 2021 – Lloyd Austin confirmed as Defense • AUG 1965 – Voting Rights Act of 1965 • 1865 – 13th Amendment officially abolishes slavery
Secretary, becomes first Black Pentagon chief • 1965 – Selma to Montgomery March • JAN 1, 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln signed
• JAN 20, 2021 – Kamala Harris is sworn in as the first • JUN 1964 – Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress the Emancipation Proclamation
Black female vice president • AUG 28, 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads historic • 1861 – Civil War began
• 2020 – Protests begin across the country following the march on Washington and delivers “I Have a Dream” • OCT 16, 1859 – John Brown’s Raid saw roughly
death of George Floyd while in police custody speech 50 men take and hold a federal arsenal in Virginia,
• 2013 – Black Lives Matter Movement begins • 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, with a goal of acquiring enough ammunition to
• 2008 – Barack Obama inaugurated as first African forcibly integrated take on slaveholders in the region
American President • 1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott follows Rosa Parks’
• 2001 – Colin Powell named Secretary of State refusal to surrender her seat • MAR 6 1857 – Scott v. Sanford, Supreme Court
case in which Dred Scott sued for (but did not win)
• 1995 – Million Man March • 1954 – Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of his freedom
• 1992 – Los Angeles riots prompted by beating of Rodney Education declares segregation in public schools unlawful
King at the hands of Los Angeles police officers • 1925 - 1965 – Malcolm X, a leader for civil rights, • 1830 - 1870 – Abolitionist Movement works to end
• 1988 – Jesse Jackson runs for the Democratic presidential inspired the Black Power movement. He was murdered slavery in the United States
nomination again while giving a speech Feb. 21, 1965 • 1818 - 1895 – Frederick Douglass, escaped slavery
• 1986 – Oprah’s first talk show is aired • 1909 – NAACP founded to become an activist, author and public speaker.
• 1984 – Jesse Jackson runs for the Democratic presidential • 1896 – Separate but equal segregation or “Jim Crow” laws • 1793 – Cotton became a cash crop in the South,
nomination upheld by Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson fueling a rise in slave labor
• 1972 – Shirley Chisholm runs for president • 1870 – 15th Amendment guarantees a citizen’s right to • 1780s - 1830s – Underground Railroad works to
• APR 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated on a vote regardless race, color, or previous enslavement aid slaves in escaping to freedom
motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee • 1868 – 14th Amendment grants equal Constitutional • 1619 – The year the first enslaved Africans were
• APR 1968 – Fair Housing Act protection to former slaves brought by boat to Virginia