| Series |
The American mosaic
American mosaic (Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)) ^A795655
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| Contents |
Atlantic slave trade expands to North America (1581) -- Slavery is introduced to Virginia (1619) -- Slave codes are established (1660s) -- Bacon's Rebellion (1675) -- The great awakening (1720s-1760s) -- Stono Rebellion (1739) -- New York conspiracy trials (1741) -- George Washington bans Black men from revolutionary forces (1775) -- Lord Dunmore offers freedom to Blacks who join the British (1775) -- Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Northwest ordinance bars slavery from western territories (1787) -- 3/5 Compromise is added to the Constitution (1787) -- Cotton gin is invented (1793) -- Gabriel's Rebellion (1800) -- New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery (1804) -- Congress ends U.S. participation in the Atlantic slave trade (1808) -- Richard Allen establishes the African Methodist Church (1816) -- American colonization society establishes Liberia (1816) -- Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1822) -- Nat Turner's rebellion (1831) -- American Anti-slavery Society is founded (1833) -- Amistad mutiny (1839) -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, written by himself is published (1845) -- Sojourner Truth gives "Ain't I a woman?" speech (1850) -- Compromise of 1850 -- Underground Railroad increases its efforts to aid runaway slaves (1850) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin is published (1851) -- Kansas-Nebraska Act establishes popular sovereignty (1854) -- Senator Charles Sumner is attacked in the Senate (1856) -- George Fitzhugh of Virginia argues the benefits of slavery (1857) -- Dred Scott Decision (1857) -- John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry (1859) -- Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) -- Blacks enlist in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (1863) -- Congress and President Lincoln devise rival forms of reconstruction (1864) -- Sharecropping is established (1865) -- Thirteenth Amendment is ratified (1865) -- Freedmen's Bureau is created (1865) -- Black codes are passed (1865-1866) -- Ku Klux Klan is formed (1866) -- Fourteenth Amendment is ratified (1868) -- Fifteenth Amendment is ratified (1870) -- First Black men elected to the U.S. Congress (1870) -- Compromise of 1877 -- Kansas Exodus Joint Stock Company sends emigrants west (1879) -- Tuskegee Institute is founded (1881) -- Colored Farmers' Alliance representatives help found the Populist Party (1892) -- Ida B. Wells denounces lynching (1892) -- Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise speech (1895) -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Buffalo Soldiers serve in the American West and Spanish American War (1890s) -- Scott Joplin's "Maple leaf rag" establishes ragtime as an American musical form (1899) -- W.E.B. du Bois publishes The souls of black folk (1903) -- Jack Johnson becomes the first Black heavyweight boxing champion (1908) -- Formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1909) -- Charles Davenport publishes Eugenics : the science of human improvement by better breeding (1910) -- Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) founded (1914) -- The birth of a nation rejuvenates the Ku Klux Klan (1915) -- The Great Migration (1915-1920) -- Race riots (1919-1921) -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) is founded (1925) -- Harlem Renaissance (1920s) -- Elijah Muhammad joins the Nation of Islam (1931) -- The Scottsboro Boys case (1931) -- Mississippi Health Project begins (1934) -- Boxer Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera (1935) -- Mary McLeod Bethune joins the New Deal (1936) -- March on Washington's Double V campaign (1941) -- Tuskegee Airmen silence skeptics with victories in Italy (1944) -- Morgan v. Virginia rules that segregation on interstate buses is illegal (1946) -- President Harry S. Truman desegregates the U.S. military (1948) -- Jackie Robinson breaks the color bar in baseball (1947) -- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -- Lynching of Emmett Till (1955) -- Rosa Parks is arrested (1955) -- Crisis at Little Rock (1957) -- North Carolina A&T students initiate a sit-in protest (1960) -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed (1960) -- Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech (1963) -- Birmingham church bombing (1963) -- Civil Rights Act (1964) -- Economic Opportunity Act (1964) -- The Moynihan report (1965) -- Voting Rights Act (1965) -- Watts riot in Los Angeles (1965) -- Black Panther Party is founded (1966) -- Blacks serve in the military during the Vietnam War (1960s) -- Loving v. Virginia (1967) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated (1968) -- Kerner report is issued (1968) -- President Richard Nixon promotes a southern strategy (1968) -- Roots is televised (1977) -- Michele Wallace publishes Black macho and the myth of the superwoman (1978) -- Bakke case (1978) -- Black Miami residents riot over police brutality (1980) -- Jesse Jackson runs for president (1984) -- Clarence Thomas is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court (1991) -- Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and rioting ensues (1992) -- Welfare Reform Act (1996) -- Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans (2005). |
| Abstract |
Provides term paper projects and information for high school students. Includes summaries, in-depth information, annotated primary and secondary sources, website suggestions, and multimedia resources. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008051972 |
| ISBN | 9780313355011 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0313355010 (alk. paper) |
