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| The year the first blacks were brought to America. They were referred to as indentured servants b/c slavery was illegal in the british colonies |
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| American Baptist Convention voted that slave owners couldn't be missionaries. Baptists in the south were infuriated so they started the Southern Baptist Convention. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Civil War ended. 13th ammendment passed which made it illegal for one person to own another person. |
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| Black men given the right to vote |
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| The time in which most of the Jim Crowe laws were passed |
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| Plessey vs. Ferguson. A man wouldn't move to the colored car on a train. The supreme court ruled that as long as you provided equal facilities, it was legal. Used to justify Jim Crowe laws. |
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| The desegregation of the armed forces was decreed |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education decision |
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| Beginning of the Civil Rights movement and leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. Bus boycott happened in Alabama. Led by Rosa Parks. |
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| 4 black college students tried to eat at Woolworths. Eventually led to removal of the Jim Crowe law stating that blacks couldn't eat where whites eat. |
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| Passage of Civil Rights legislation. Made it a federal offense to discriminate against anyone on the basis of race, gender, religion, nationality, or disability. |
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| Last supreme court decision dealing with Jim Crowe laws. Black/white marriage. |
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| Arthur Jensen published his research on black/white IQ. Said that there was a significant difference in the two IQs. |
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| James Coleman did a study on desegregating schools. He came up with busing kids to different schools. |
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| Reverse discrimination. White college student applied to UCLA but didn't get it b/c the school used the quota system. Case went to the supreme court and they ruled that it was constitutional to practice affirmative action, but not to use the quota system. |
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| Most discriminatory laws are removed, but prejudice is still present in people's minds. |
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