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The American Civil War

Did not agree on whether African-Americans should have their freedom.

Northern states (industrialisation) versus the southern states (farming) of US

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

The northern states wins the war in 1865

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Was chosen to be one of the three first African American student to enroll in a graduate program at west Virginia University, in 1939.

Calculated trajectories for Alan shepard's 1961 spaceflight (America's first human in space)

Worked on the plan to save Apollo 13's crew and helped bring them safely back to Earth.

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The Civil rights movement

Fought to end racial segregation and discrimination by protesting, boycutting and mass marches

Many important leaders helped including Martin Luther King Jr. He believed in nonviolent protests.

The Civil rights movement successfully took apart the Jim Crow laws and helped many people

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In 2020 a man named George Floyd, got arrested for possible fake dollar use, and was strangled by a police officer.

His last words was ''I can't breathe''

His death started more focus on Black Lives Matter.

A lot of famous people started posting about it and used their platforms to talk about how wrong and wild it was that racism behavior, specielly by a cop could still happen in 2020.