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When people work for no pay. It is also a system of ownership.
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1619 : Beginning of slavery

1808 : Congress banned the importation of slaves.

Supreme court declared that blacks are not U.S. citizens and that Congress cannot prohibit slavery.

Harriet Tubman
She was an Afro-American anti-slavery activist. She helped more than 300 slaves escape

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Abolitionist drawing about the sale of blacks

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Slaves in cotton plantation

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1861 Civil War began

1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation

1865 Civil War ended

Abraham Lincoln
He guided the US during the Civil War

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White people kept an eye on slaves while they were working

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This picture shows the unification of the U.S, the end of this terrible war and the end of the slavery.

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It's the battle between North and South. On the left, there are Northern soldiers and on the right there are Southern soldiers. We can see the Confederate flag on the right.

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It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War. It's a turning point, between the Union  (the North) and the Confederacy (the South). The Union won this battle.

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Jim Crow laws and segregation crash course

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Jim Crow laws and segregation crash course

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A black man is using a different washbasin than white people. Blacks had to use different infrastructures.

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Another example of segregation. This laundry authorized only white people to come and black maids were only allowed to come in if they had their uniform. Blacks could't be customers.
"maids in uniform accepted".

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This racist movement was born in 1865 : The Ku Klux Klan considered Blacks as lower than Whites  and committed more than 10,000 murders.

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JIm Crow laws established segregation between blacks and whites
Key facts/dates:

1896: U.S Supreme Court ruled that segregation doesn't violate the 14th amendment's equal-protection clause as long as conditions provided are "separate but equal"

1909 : NAACP was founded, defending black people's rights.

Blacks were not allowed to use the same infrastructures as Whites: they used different washbasins, they were not allowed to sit in the same part of  buses, had to use different sides of drinking fountains, couldn't go to school with black children...

"Strange fruit" by Billie Holiday (1939)
This song is about the violences and the crimes commited against black people in the South  (lynching, burning of blacks )

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930

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4 policemen are protecting a young black girl who is going to a white school. The word "nigger" written on the wall is disrespectful and violent.
The Problem We All Live With  by Norman Rockwell, 1964

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Blacks and whites are holding hands.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 27, 1963).
Black and white demonstrators wanted equality and an end to segregation. They wanted bosses to stop paying blacks less than whites,

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it's the movement who want to be egal and NOT be separate
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1954Brown v. Board of Education

December 1, 1955, rosa parks

1961 segragation is illegal !!!

Rosa Parks
she's the first black who refused to give up her seat to a white person

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At last, now blacks are allowed to do everything they want, like white people. They are now equal.

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2001 : General Colin Powell became first black Secretary of State

2009 : Barack Obama became the president of the United States.

January, 30th 2009 :  Michael Steele became the first African American to lead the Republican Party as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

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Barack Obama :
He is the first Black president of the United State of America. Barack Obama was elected twice.
He is pretty successful.

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It's an international activist group. They are against the violence and systemic racism blacks suffer from/ have to endure..

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Freedom at last? Recent events crash course

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Freedom at last? Recent events crash course

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First, Ferguson is a city in the South in Missouri which shows the inequality between blacks and whites. In this city there was a huge demonstration because of Michael Brown's death, a black citizen shot by a white policeman. They also protested against inequalities like the unemployment rate of black people,....

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People around the world have watched Ferguson, Missouri in disbelief that what they're seeing is taking place in the United States. But Ferguson is actually quite American. AJ+ host Dena Takruri explains how the city is a microcosm of the systemic racial inequality that persists in the U.S, from poverty and unemployment to the police targeting of African-American communities.

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We have chosen this picture because it shows us one of the few rights that blacks didn't have before, during the segregation.