History of the American South

Jamestown was founded in 1607 by a group of English settlers led by Captain John Smith.

Slavery was the primary cause of the American Civil War, as the Southern states sought to preserve their right to own slaves while the Northern states opposed slavery.

Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, is often seen as the turning point of the Civil War, as it marked the end of the Confederate Army's invasion of the North.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860.

The NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC were all major organizations involved in the civil rights movement in the United States.

Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017.

Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Birmingham, Alabama was the site of a major civil rights protest in 1963, known as the Birmingham Campaign.

George Wallace was the governor of Alabama during the civil rights movement and was a staunch opponent of desegregation.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 while supporting a strike by sanitation workers.

Mississippi was the last state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, in 1870.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and government programs.

Charlottesville, Virginia was the site of a major white supremacist rally in 2017, which resulted in violence and the death of one counter-protester.