Timeline
1840
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1861
Civil War begins
1863
Emancipation Proclamation
1865
Civil War ends
1865
13th Amendment
1868
14th Amendment
1857
15th Amendment
1857
Jim Crow era begins
1857
Quilt Top (LLL)
1857
Quilt Top (RC)
1857
Ballot Box
1857
Winslow Homer,
"A Visit from the Old Mistress"
1857
Ida B. Wells,
Southern Horrors
1877
Compromise of 1877
1900
Lift Every Voice and Sing
ca. 1910-1920
Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Co.
Vegetable Shampoo Tin
1917
Maggie Walker
Adding Machine from St. Luke's
1919
Meta Fuller
Mary Turner
1950s
Civil Rights Movement begins
2008
Alison Saar
Swing Low
2017
Kara Walker
Maquette for The Katastwóf Karavan