African American History Crossword

In _______, The first African American indentured servants arrive in the American colonies.
1739: The _______________________, one of the earliest slave revolts, occurs in Stono, South Carolina.
1793: ____________________’s (1765 – 1825) cotton gin increases the need for slaves.
1808: Congress bans further ____________________ of slaves.
1831: In Boston, William Lloyd Garrison (1805 – 1879) begins publication of the anti-slavery newspaper the ___________________ and becomes a leading voice in the Abolitionist movement.
From 1831 to 1861, approximately 75,000 slaves escape to the North using the __________________.
1846: Ex-slave ___________________ (1818 – 1895) publishes the anti-slavery North Star newspaper.
In ________, Harriet Tubman (c. 1820 – 1913) escapes from slavery and becomes an instrumental leader of the Underground Railroad.
1857- The __________________ case: congress does not have the right to ban slavery in the states; slaves are not citizens.
Massachusetts ______________________ of African American troops led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (1837 – 1863) marches out of Boston on May 28th, heading into combat.
1866: The "_______ Codes" are passed by all white legislators of the former Confederate States.
During 1879, thousands of African Americans migrate out of the South to escape _______________.
In 1870, the _________________ is ratified, giving African Americans the right to vote.
In 1881, Tennessee passes the first of the “Jim Crow” _____________, segregating state railroads. Similar laws are passed over the next 15 years throughout the Southern states.
In 1954, ____________________ case: strikes down segregation as unconstitutional
1896- __________________ case: racial segregation is ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court.
1957: ___________________, Jr. (1929 – 1968) and others set up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a leading engine of the Civil Rights Movement.
1964: The Civil Rights Act is signed, prohibiting ___________________ of all kinds.
1965: The ________________ Act is passed, outlawing the practices used in the South to disenfranchise African American voters.
1967: __________________ (1919 - ) becomes the first African American U.S. Senator since Reconstruction.
Edward W. Brooke serves two terms as a Senator from _____________________.
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in ____________, Tennessee.
in 2008, Barack Obama (1961 - ) becomes the first ___________________ to win the U.S. presidential race.
1955: In Montgomery, Alabama, _____________ (1913 – 2005) is arrested for breaking a city ordinance by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. This defiant act gives initial momentum to the Civil Rights Movement.