Post on 25-Jun-2015
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By the 1660’s most Africans in the colony had been made slaves. Some American colonists, especially in the South, need many workers to grow crops such as tobacco, rice, and cotton. In 1860, nearly 4 million black people were slaves in USA.
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In 1819, the United States was made up of an equal number
of free states and slave states.
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On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed all
slaves in the parts of the Confederate
states that were in rebellion. It also, allowed
for the recruiting of black soldiers. By the
end of the war in 1865, more than 200,000
African – American men had fought for the
union.
The Thirteenth
Amendment became law in December
1865. It abolished slavery.
In 1868, The Fourteenth Amendment
gave citizenship to
former slaves. It
guaranteed their
freedom and right to be
treated fairly and equally.
1. After the civil War, white Southerners tried to keep
control of the economy and government of the South.
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In the United States, the "separate but equal" doctrine refers to legally sanctioned segregation arising (in part)
from the US Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896). "Separate but equal" allowed states to pass laws
requiring separate accommodations and facilities for people on the basis of race or color in order to prevent African-Americans, who had recently been freed from slavery, from intermingling with whites, who believed
themselves superior to African-Americans.
Who is
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"Jim Crow,“ it appeared in sheet music written by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. Rice, a struggling "actor" (he did short solo skits
between play scenes) at the Park Theater in New York, happened upon a black person singing the above song -- some accounts say it was an old
black slave who walked with difficulty, others say it was a ragged black stable boy. Whether
modeled on an old man or a young boy we will never know, but we know that in 1828 Rice
appeared on stage as "Jim Crow" -- an exaggerated, highly stereotypical black
character.
Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who released her first recording of it in 1939, the year she first sang it. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had occurred chiefly in the South but also in all other regions of the United States.
1999, Time magazine called it the song of the century
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady
of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[1] Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1 of 1955, have both
become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in the U.S. states of California and Ohio.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968. He was assassinated on april 4,
1968, in Memphis , Tennessee) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent
civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
SIMILAR LAWS IN THE
WORLD LIKE JIM CROW LAW
The Nuremberg Laws in 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
Apartheid "the status of being apart" was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (England governments), who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa,