In what order did these key transgender rights milestones occur? The murder of a transgender women is
labled a hate crime and the Matthew
Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes
Prevention Act is signed into law.
Minneapolis is the first city to pass
transgender protections.
EEOC rules Title Vll applies to
transgender employees.
Diane Schroer wins the first discrimination
lawsuit against an employer for
discrimination of her transgender status
(the district court concluded it was a
violation of Title Vil).

you answered your own : -/

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.