American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline. Portuguese negotiate the first slave trade agreement that also includes gold and ivory. By the end of the 19th Century, because of the slave trade, five times as many Africans (over 11 million) would arrive in the Americas than Europeans.
Consequently, on June 27, 1963, Ernesto Miranda was convicted and sentenced to two concurrent terms of 20-30 years imprisonment. But Alvin Moore's arguments about the confession had touched off a legal firestorm. Miranda's conviction was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 13, 1966, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a 5-4 majority, for the first time established unequivocal guidelines about what is and what is not permissible in the interrogation room:
Update 4:30 p.m. ET: The domestic violence case against Ralston has been dismissed âat the request of the city attorney,â per the AP. The hiker who cut off his own arm after a boulder pinned him in a Utah canyon and inspired the movie 127 Hours was arrested in Denver on domestic violence charges Sunday. Aron Ralston, who was played by James Franco in the film adaptation of his book, was booked on charges of assault and wrongs to minors, the Associated Press reports.