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The first Africans were brought to America. Soon, most Blacks in America were slaves.

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A law made it illegal to bring more Africans to be slaves, but slavery continued.

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Lily Anne Granderson was born into slavery. When she was 4 her mother died and she was sold to a master in Kentucky. She learned to read and write. She started a secret school in the woods for slaves of all different ages. But then her master died and she got sold to a master in Misisipi. She was a cotton picker but she got ill from all the sun. Her master switched her to being a kitchen worker and she got better. She met a man named Oliver and they had a son. She started her secret school again and her students loved to learn.

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Henry Box Brown sent himself to Pennsylvania for less slavery

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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery using the "Underground Railroad" during 1849. She travelled back and forth as an underground railroad conductor, going back for family and friends even people she didn’t know!

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Uncle Tom's Cabin, an antiracist book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, went viral. It also helped to start the Civil War.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author and Abolitionist Video | PBS LearningMedia

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Harriet Beecher Stowe used the emotional power of words to express her conscious belief in racial equality. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to point out the atrocities of slavery, an issue that divided the nation and eventually led to the start of the Civil War.

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The North won the Civil War. Slavery ended (except as a punishment for a crime.)

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Segregation. Blacks were forced to be separate from Whites. There were laws that prevented them from voting, eating together at restaurants, going to school together, and more.

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Segregation in the southern USA (Jim Crow Laws period Photos)

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Jackie Robinson was the first black player in the Major Leagues. Branch Rickey asked him to integrate the Major Leagues. People yelled rude comments, and he couldn't be served in restaurants or stay in the same hotels as his teammates. He stood tall and didn't fight back. His teammate Pee Wee Reese was an upstander. He spoke up when other players tried to get Jackie off the team and he stood with Jackie when fans called him names.

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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, when Black people refused to ride the city buses until they were integrated.

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Juliette Hampton Morgan was white and she was a librarian and she was supporting the bus boycott by writing letters to the newspaper.