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Civil and political rights

1775: Darby Vassall: A lesson about equality
1776: Activist Black community forms in Boston
1789: Enslavers are majority in first U.S. Congress
1790: U.S. Congress: "You must be White to be a citizen"
1810: David Ruggles: Marshals support for freedom seekers
1816: "Fantasy" scheme to preserve U.S. slavery
1823: Supreme Court legitimizes theft of Native lands
1826: New group fosters Black abolitionist movement
1827: Freedom's Journal: the voice of Black abolitionism
1829-1830: Pro-slavery mobs devastate Black Ohio communities
1830: Abolitionists lead church desegregation effort
1831: Flagship anti-slavery paper is launched
1833: Emiliano Mundrucu: Challenges racism in court
1835: Activists foil kidnappers, help fugitives to freedom
1837: Wendell Phillips: Powerful voice for abolition
1837-1838: Black activists organize for voting rights
1842: Sarah Parker Remond: Activist for human rights, women's suffrage
1843: Abolitionists campaign against segregation, for interracial marriage
1844: Historian derides notions of White superiority
1846: "Father" of Underground Railroad helps free 800
1850: Martin Delany: Abolitionist leader, champions Black self-reliance
1855: Black abolitionists help ban segregated schools
1857: Supreme Court: Black Americans have no rights
1860: Ballot loss shows White hostility to voting rights
1860: Abolitionist plot rumors spark deadly rampage
1860: Wide Awake: The movement that helps Lincoln win
1860: Lincoln victory hailed as historic turning point
1860: South Carolina is first to secede from the Union
1862: Ida B. Wells: Journalist, civil rights leader exposes lynching
1862: Robert Smalls: Sails Confederate ship to freedom
1863: Abraham Galloway: Militant activist, Union spy, civil rights leader
1865: KKK founded; will boast over 500,000 New England members in 1920s
1865-1866: Black Codes: Slavery by another name
1866: White mob kills voting rights advocates
1866: Wisconsin activists win voting rights campaign
1866: Racism robs African Americans of land reform benefits

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