European colonists land in Jamestown, Virginia , Europeans bring people from African to Jamestown; beginning of slavery in Virginia colony, July 4th: Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal”, US Constitution is written – white men age 21 and older who own property can vote, Abraham Lincoln elected president, US Civil War, Emancipation Declaration; slavery is ended, The 15th amendment is passed, supposedly giving black men the right to vote., Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus and is arrested, starting the Montgomery bus boycott, 200,000 people organized a march on Washington, DC to protest inequality. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the “I Have a Dream Speech”, The Voting Rights Act is passed, Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated.

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