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Zurara wrote a book glorifying the enslavement of African people. This is the first time we see evidence of racism and discrimination based on the color of ones skin or where they may come from. Zurara also calls the Africans "savages" and states that enslaving them is the best way to "make them better" or to "save them"

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Like Zurara, these theories were created to justify the enslavement of African people by trying to prove "scientifically" that they were inferior.

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Colombus first arrived to the Americas and enslaved the natives to the land, this is the first evidence we see of enslavement in the new world

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In the 1600s, the Puritans arrived in America and set up the country's first education and religious system which reflected their values. These values included racism, which means it was embedded into the education system

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This is the very first example of anti-racism in America. They created and circulated an anti-slavery petition in 1688. They had left a place of oppression and didn't want others to feel the way they had.

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He was a traditional politician who switched his stance on important topics for the sake of the presidency. He fought for the freedom of African Americans int he south only so European nations could not provide aid to the South

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This Amendment was ratified in 1870 and allowed all men who were citizens of the United States to vote no matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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He published Frederick Douglas and was an antiracist journalist

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Du Bois was constantly struggling on the line of being an assimilationist and an anti-racist. At the beginning of his life, his goal was to impress white people and make them comfortable. However, towards the end of his life he was fed up and began to follow the path of an anti-racist

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He talked at a conference about how African Americans weren't inferior to caucasians

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He was a leader in the civil rights movement that did not tolerate being treated badly by white people. He felt blacks should protect themselves in any way against white aggression.

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He was the leader of a movement against Jim Crow

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She is an African American women who went to a Black College and she was a communist who taught

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This was a Supreme Court case in 1954 which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

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One of the biggest anti-racist movements that started in 2014 and is still present today.