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A time line of the history of African Americans.

Created by amiovine on Feb 15, 2011

Last updated: 02/15/11 at 11:04 AM

• Barack Obama becomes President
  2008

  President Obama becomes the first African American in the United States.

• Halle Berry Wins An Oscar
  2002

  First African American woman to win an Academy Award. Denzel Washington also won an Oscar this same year.

• Toni Morrison Wins Nobel Prize
  1993

  First African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature.

• Oprah Winfrey Debuts
  1986

  Oprah becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated television show.

• Martin Luther King Jr. Assasinated
  1968

  Civil Rights activist and "I Have A Dream" speaker is murdered.

• Rosa Parks Arrested
  1955

  Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus simply because she is an African American.

• Tuskegee Experiments Begin
  1932

  Doctors deny African Americans medical treatment for Syphilis as part of an experiment, even after they discovered a cure.

• Segregation Legalized
  1896

  The Supreme Court decides in the Plessy Vs. Ferguson case that "separate but equal" satisfies the 14th amendment which gives legal sanction to "Jim Crow" segregation laws.

• Emancipation Proclamation
  1863

  President Lincoln declares an end to the Civil War and an end to slavery.

• Civil War Breaks Out
  1861

  America is split in two over the issue of slavery. The Union and The Confederacy fought over whether slavery should be allowed.