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1607: American colonies are settled by the British

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1607: American colonies are settled by the British

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First slaves imported to America late August, 1619

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First slaves imported to America late August, 1619

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Colonist began using slaves from Africa

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Out of 5 slaves, 3 of them will be counted as population while the other 2 were property.

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Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state

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A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that shows the terror and horror of slavery.

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The Supreme Court ruled that slaves have no citizenship nor that Congress has the ability to regulate slaves. This increased tension for the Civil War

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Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863

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Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863

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Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

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Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863

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13th = abolished slavery, 14 = citizenship and equal treatment ,and the 15th = voting rights

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A hate group that is a response to the perceived threat of racial equality, Ku Klux Klan.

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Ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional, upholding racial segregation laws

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An intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship

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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 1934

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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 1934

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The FHA’s primary function was to increase home ownership by encouraging banks to make loans to home builders and to home buyers, however they refused to lend loans to African Americans

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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 1934

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Allowed (white) veterans to buy new homes and attend college at the end of World War II. African Americans were exempted from this.

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Truman de-segregates the military July 26, 1948

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Truman de-segregates the military July 26, 1948

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The US military integrated with African Americans.

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Rosa Parks was arrested for the refusal of giving a white man her seat on the bus, this sparked many black citizens of Montgomery refused to ride the city’s buses in protest over the bus system’s policy of racial segregation

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In Little Rock, Arkansas, 9 African American students rerolled into a all white school. President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort them as there were many assault attempts.

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large-scale migration of whites out of cities and into suburbs. This prevented blacks from living with them. They redline them, a method were they would refuse a loan or a grant from a non-white buyer, and restrictive covenants, which are contracts forbidding the sale of homes to non-white buyers. This is happening post World War II.

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Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech/March on Washington 1963

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Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech/March on Washington 1963

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MLK delivered a speech where he gave impassioned voice to the demands of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement using universal themes to depict the struggles of African Americans

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Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech/March on Washington 1963

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Banned labor (work) discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin

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Prohibit racial discrimination in voting