1. Stephanie Stone Period:1 Mr.Rodrigues

2. It prohibits slavery except punishment as a crime December 8 1865

3. It gives slaves and their descendants rights. June 9,1868

4. It granted African American men the right to vote. February 3 rd, 1870

5. This speech was given at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The main idea of this speech was to stop the racism stuff and let black and white people to join ands and go to the same school together. It is important because white and black people weren't aloud together and it wasn’t fair. Ad Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to change it. August 28, 1963

6. Rosa Parks wouldn’t get up out of her seat for a white man, so she got fined and went to jail. December 1, 1955

7. Jesse Owens is famous for a runner/Olympian. He won four medals beating out all the other athletes. June 1936.

8. Jackie Robinson is famous for baseball. He was the first African American baseball player. April 15, 1947

9. This occurred Memphis Tennessee. It occurred because he was changing the blacks and whites and people didn’t want it to change. There were riots. March 29, 1968

10. Barack Obama is the president f the United States. He is the first African American president. January 20, 2009

11. Thurgood Marshall is famous because he was the an African American jurist and the first African American to serve on the supreme court of the united states. He was the first African American to serve on the supreme court. June 13, 1967