AMERICAN HISTORY
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1619 Jamestown, Virginia
1501-1867 Transatlantic Slave Trade
1770 Boston Massacre
1775-1783 Revolutionary War
1790 Whitney Plantation
1817-1858 Seminole Wars
1820 Missouri Compromise
1823 "Slaves At Auction"
1846-1858 Mexican American Wars
1800-1865 A Brutal Evil American System
1860s "An Enslaved Family"
1835-1849 Women Petitions Against Slavery
1850 "An Enslaved Family"
1850 "Compromise of 1850"
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
1861-1865 American Civil War
1860s Enslaved Women And Children
1861 "Master and Slave"
1863 "Whipped Peter"
1865 The Cotton Field
1865 Juneteenth
1865 "The Ruins of Richmond"
1868 "It was bitter cold and nearly two feet of snow had fallen on the morning of November 27, 1868. Chief Black Kettle and nearly 300 Native Americans, mostly women, children and elderly, were sound asleep in their winter village, just outside of what is now Cheyenne, Oklahoma. They had no idea that some 500 soldiers, led by the arrogance and cruelty of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, were about to storm down upon them like a living nightmare."
1875 Plantation Slavery
1877-1950 Lynching in America
1889 Pillory Punishment
1898 Spanish-American War
1906 Extreme Inhumane American Racism
1906 Evil American Injustice
1908 Lynching Postcards
1912 Forsyth, Georgia
1914 Ludlow Massacre
1915 Leo Frank Lynched
1916 The Waco Horror
1916 "A convention of formerly enslaved people gathered in Washington, DC, in 1916. Left to right: unidentified, Anna Angales, Elizabeth Berkeley, and Sadie Thompson."
1920 Duluth Lynchings
1920 Ocoee Massacre
1921 Tulsa Massacre
1923 Rosewood Massacre
1929-1941 Great Depression
1930 Marion Lynching
1930-1962 "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others" - 1st US Federal Government Drug Narcotics Chief Harry Anslinger
1931 The Scottsboro Boys
1885-1938 "Half fainting from pain"
1941 Pearl Harbor Attack
1943 "This Is A White Man's Neighborhood"
1943 Navajo Code Talkers
1944 Normandy Landing
1944 George Stinney
1945 Iwo Jima Victory
1949 St. Louis Race Riot
1950 Brutal Racist Mob Attack
1950-1953 The Forgotten War
Baltimore, Maryland 1954 "Negroes Are OK in their OWN place but not in Southern"
1955 "Negro Waiting Room"
1956 Jim Crow Segregation
1956 "$200 A Doz."
1957 Little Rock Nine
1959 Wrightsville Boys
1960 "Save Segregation"
1960 Woolworth Sit-Ins
1963 Birmingham Chaos
1963 "All Are One In Christ Jesus"
1963 March On Washington
1963 "More Than 300,000 Negroes Are Denied Vote in Alabama"
1964 Harlem Race Riot
1964 Prison Slavery
1964 'STOP KILLER COPS'
1965 Voting Rights Act
1966 Texas Slavery
1968 Vietnam War
1968 "No Man Left Behind"
1968 "I AM A MAN"
1968 Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
1969 Stonewall Riots
1971 "War On Drugs"
1975 Arkansas Slavery
1981 Louisiana Slavery
1991 Persian Gulf War
1994 President Nixon's White House Counsel and Top Domestic Policy Advisor (Top Left), Admits They Lied About Marijuana And That The "War On Drugs" Was Designed to Criminalize And Further Oppress Black People
2001 World Trade Centers
2003 Iraq War
2007 Afghanistan War
2018 March For Our Lives