African American History and Women Timeline 1860-1869

African American History and Women Timeline 1860-1869 [Previous] [Next] Ladies and African American History: 1860-1869 1860 established in 1832 and tolerating male and female, white and dark understudies, by 1860 Oberlin College had an understudy populace that was 33% African American 1861 Occurrences in the Life of a Slave Girl, life account of Harriet Jacobs, was distributed, including depictions of the sexual abuse of female slaves Laura Towne, from Pennsylvania, went to the Sea Islands off the bank of South Carolina to encourage the previous slaves she ran a school in the Sea Islands until 1901, receiving a few African American youngsters with her companion and showing accomplice, Ellen Murray 1862 Charlotte Forten showed up in the Sea Islands to work with Laura Towne, showing previous slaves Mary Jane Patterson, moving on from Oberlin College, was the main African American lady to move on from an American school Congress abrogated bondage in Washington, DC (July 16) Ida B. (Wells-Barnett) conceived (muckraking columnist, teacher, lobbyist, hostile to lynching essayist and extremist) (July 13-17) numerous New York African Americans executed in draft riots (September 22) Emancipation Proclamation gave, liberating slaves inside an area constrained by the Union 1863 Fanny Kemble distributed Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation which contradicted subjection and filled in as abolitionist servitude purposeful publicity Diary of Old Elizabeth a Colored Woman distributed: personal history of an African Methodist Episcopal evangelist Susie King Taylor, African American armed force nurture with the Union armed force, started thinking of her diary, later distributed as In Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: Civil War Nurse Mary Church Terrell conceived (lobbyist, clubwoman) 1864 Rebecca Ann Crumple moved on from the New England Medical College, turning into the principal African American lady M.D. 1865 servitude finished in the United States with the entry of the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution  American Equal Rights Associationâ founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lucy Stone, and others, to work for equivalent rights for African Americans and ladies the gathering split in 1868 over which gathering (ladies or African American men) should take need  Charlotte Fortenâ published Life on the Sea Islands about her showing encounters as an African American northerner who went south to show previous slaves sculptor Edmonia Lewisâ produced a bust of Robert Gould Shaw, who drove dark soldiers in the Civil War (Walk 9) Mary Murray Washington conceived (instructor, author of the Tuskegee Womans Club, spouse of Booker T. Washington) (April 11) Mary White Ovingtonâ born (social specialist, reformer, NAACP author) (- 1873) numerous ladies educators, medical caretakers, and doctors went toward the South to help previous slaves by establishing schools and offering different types of assistance, as a component of the Freedmens Bureau exertion or as preachers with strict or progressively mainstream associations 1866 President Andrew Johnson vetoed subsidizing for and expansion of the Freedmens Bureau, however Congress superseded the veto  Old Elizabethâ died 1867 Rebecca Cole moved on from clinical school, the second African American lady to do as such. She proceeded to work with Elizabeth Blackwellâ in New York.  Edmonia Lewisâ created form Forever Free imparting the reaction of African Americans when they knew about the finish of subjection (July 15) Maggie Lena Walkerâ born (investor, official) (December 23) Sarah Breedlove Walker (Madam C.J. Walker) conceived 1868  14th Amendmentâ to the US Constitition conceded US citizenship to African American men just because unequivocally characterizing US residents as male. Perspectives towards the significance of this change split the American Equal Rights Association inside the year. A lot later, the fourteenth Amendment turned into the reason for variousâ equal protectionâ cases upholding for womens rights. Elizabeth Keckley, dressmaker and comrade of Mary Todd Lincoln, distributed her autobiography, Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House sculptor Edmonia Lewis produced Hagar in the Wilderness 1869 biography Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her Peopleâ by Sarah Bradford distributed; continues financed a home for the older established by Harriet Tubman  National Woman Suffrage Associationâ founded (NWSA), with Elizabeth Cady Stantonâ as first president (November) American Woman Suffrage Association established (AWSA), with Henry Ward Beecher as first president [Previous] [Next] [1492-1699] [1700-1799] [1800-1859] [1860-1869] [1870-1899] [1900-1919] [1910-1919] [1920-1929] [1930-1939] [1940-1949] [1950-1959] [1960-1969] [1970-1979] [1980-1989] [1990-1999] [2000-]