1845 Hannah Williams was born in South Carolina

1850 The Compromise of 1850 prohibits slave trade in the District of Colombia
1857 The Dred Scott case is settled, making slavery the most explosive issue in politics.
1859 The last slave ship, Clotilde, arrives in Mobile, Alabama.

1860 Laura Williams is born in South Carolina

1863 The Emancipation Proclamation from Abraham Lincoln frees slaves.
1865 The 13th Amendment is passed abolishing slavery.
1866 The Civil Rights Act is passed granting the same rights regardless of race.

1870 The 15th Amendment is passed allowing African American men to vote.
1871 The first Jim Crow segregation law is passed in Tennessee
1875 Another Civil Rights Act passed to move toward equality.

1879 Laura Williams marries John Sailor in Barnwell, SC

1880 Laura and John Sailor move back home to farm with Hannah and Geoffrey Williams

1883 The 1875 Civil Rights Act is overturned.
1890 Mississippi enacts the first Poll Tax to keep African Americans from voting
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case establishes ‘separate but equal’ accommodations.

1900 Laura and John Sailor live in Rocky Grove Township Sallys town, Aiken, South Carolina, with their 7 children (Maggie, Katherine, Henry, Daught, Mitty, Willie O, and Blanche)

1900 James Weldon Johnson writes Lift Every Voice and Sing the Black National Anthem

1901 Mary Sailor, daughter of Laura and John Sailor is born

1909 The NAACP is established

1910 Willie Mae Sailor is born in South Carolina

1911 The great migration begins, the National Urban league is founded
1918 World War 1
1919 Red Summer Race Riots
1920 The 20th Amendment gives everyone the right to vote

1930 Willie Mae Sailor moves to NC with her youngest eldest son Charlie and lives with her Aunt Katherine, Uncle Henry, and Aunt Maggie and their children.

1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany

1938 Willie Mae passes giving birth to her final son. Her remaining children (Charles, Marie, Richard, Lula, Stella, and James) live with Mary Williams and then Maggie Salley.

1946 The first President’s Committee on Civil Rights established by President Truman

1948 Marie Sailor has her first child Ersalyn, followed by Charles in 1949

1948 Executive Order 9981 desegregates the military

1952 Marie moves to Mississippi and births twins

1954 Brown v Board of Education desegregates schools

1957 Marie settles in Tallahasse, Florida and gives birth to the rest of her children

1957 The third Civil Right Act passes after the longest filibuster in history