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His writings convinced people that slaves depended on slavery for everything and that they were thankful for it - this made Europeans feel good about themselves because they felt like they were doing good - they used this to justify slavery as they thought they were doing charity work and saw this as a noble action

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This is when Columbus discovered America, and he would label them as inferior. Since he discovered America he was seen as a hero, and all his followers believed what he was was saying

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They petitioned against slavery and this was the first push against slavery in the US

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Thomas Jefferson hinting that racism was unjust even when the physical statement was taken out

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William Lloyd Garrison's first issue of the liberator was the published - relaunched the abolitionist movement in the white communities

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A massive crusade and uprising that would free slaves all in the name of liberation

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members decided to rely on the new technology of mass printing to overwhelm the country with abolitionist pamphlets and antiracist ideas

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The Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - 1845 

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The Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - 1845 

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This was outlining Douglass's life as a slave, and contained many different anti-racist ideas

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This was the beginning of the fight to end slavery between the north and the south

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This was the beginning of the fight to end slavery between the north and the south

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This was the start of freeing slaves in America and said that any slave in Union territory would be forever free

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Freeing all slaves in the United States - "All persons held as slaves within any state [under rebel control] shall then, thenceforward, and forever be free"

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Lincoln saying intelligent black people should be able to vote - 1865

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Lincoln saying intelligent black people should be able to vote - 1865

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During the time of reconstruction, Lincoln openly said that he believed intelligent black men should be able to vote

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Creation of the resistance group Ni**erati - 1926

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Creation of the resistance group Ni**erati - 1926

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This was a resistance group that emerged that believed they should believed they should be able to make whatever they wanted to express themselves as whole humans without worrying about white acceptance

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During World War 1 this was the idea of "victory against racism at home and victory against fascism abroad"

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The Supreme Court determining that the courts could not enforce whites only real estate. This brought on the open housing movement

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This was the Supreme Court ruling that segregation of schools was illegal

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4 black students in Woolworth's in Greensboro and staged a sit in at the all white counter - this sparked sit ins all around the country of black young adults doing the same thing

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He became the heavyweight champion of the world and empowered the black power and civil rights movements because he was proving that he was better at boxing than all his white counterparts even despite all the ways they tried to drag him down

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Stokely Carmichael created Black Power. What he meant by that was black people owning and controlling their own neighborhoods and futures, free of white supremacy

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This was a bill passed by congress that ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This is what civil rights activists were fighting for, but they still continued to fight after this.

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Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this bill prohibits racial discrimination in voting

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Groups like Public Enemy were publishing songs that swept the nation promoting antiracism and these songs were extremely motivational and empowering, and pushed forward the black power movement

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Black Women in Academy: Defending Our Name - January 13, 1994

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Black Women in Academy: Defending Our Name - January 13, 1994

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More than two thousand female scholars from all across the country made their way to MIT's campus to defend against the defamation of black womanhood

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In Philadelphia, a million Black women gathered to have their voices heard. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Sister Souljah, Winnie Mandela, Attallah and Ilyasah Shabazz (daughters of Malcolm X), Dorothy Height all spoke

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Scientific evidence was brought forward that races are 99.9% the same; people were given scientific evidence that that all humans were the same despite the color of their skin

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United Nations World Conference - August 31 - September 7, 2001

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United Nations World Conference - August 31 - September 7, 2001

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This conference was in Durban, South Africa and was a conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance - they identified the internet as the latest mechanism for spreading racist ideas

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Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration - January 20,  2009 

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Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration - January 20,  2009 

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Barack Obama first black president in American history

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Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometri founded #BlackLivesMatter as a direct response to racist backlash in the form of police brutality - transformed from an antiracist love declaration to an antiracist movement that swept the nation