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29 year old Nathaniel Bacon was a planter who was angry that the rich Whites were taking advantage of him and decided to fight to gain his liberties back. To do this, he attacked the Natives first instead of the rich Whites. He also had declared that all servants and black folks were free. The result of this was White privilege, so that poor white people and black people wouldn't band together.

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April 18, 1688: Germantown Petition Against Slavery

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April 18, 1688: Germantown Petition Against Slavery

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Mennonites circulate an antislavery petition denouncing oppression due to skin color by equating it with oppression due to religion.

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Nearly half a million enslaved Africans revolted against French rule in Haiti and won. Haiti became the symbol of freedom in the Eastern Hemisphere. That made American slaveholders nervous, because they knew that the Haitian Revolution would be an inspiration to the people that they enslaved.

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Gabriel and Nancy Prosser planned a slave rebellion in Virginia, which was planned to occur on August 30th, 1800. They recruited hundreds, and they were supposed to march on Richmond, steal 4,000 unguarded muskets, arrest the governor, and hold the city until other enslaved folks came to negotiate the end of slavery. The negotiation would include the establishment of equal rights. However, two cynical slaves betrayed them, as well as the fifty-thousand rebels joining in, and Governor Monroe had a militia waiting. Gabriel Prosser was caught and hanged, and that was the end of it.

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The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, had been written mostly by William Lloyd Garrison, and contained antiracist literature that consisted of critiques of Lincoln's "racist political ploys" and demands for the immediate freeing of slaves. It reached a wide audience, and spoke on behalf of the northerners.

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1835: William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society

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1835: William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society

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Garrison, an abolitionist journalist wrote a book which led to the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), but utilized mas printing and efficient postal service to spread anti-racist and abolitionist information.

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1845: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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1845: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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This book was published as a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery. It was used to fight against the idea of black people being subpar and gain "white sympathy". But Douglass was a runaway slave and ended up snitching on himself  and needed to keep running.

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Published in 1850, it is the autobiography of a former slave woman named Sojourner Truth. She wrote about her experiences, and was the first woman to be a part of the conversation about slavery. She was inspired by the recent publishment of Frederick Douglass' autobiography, and she is described as being a former slave with the moxie of a woman slaveholder. She and her boldness inspired others to write about their similar experiences.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a fictional novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white woman. It helped to draw a lot of white people to the abolitionist movement by arguing that Black people made the best Christians because they were so "docile." It dehumanized enslaved Black folks, but was nevertheless instrumental in growing the abolitionist movement.

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The 15th Amendment reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Unfortunately, the 15th Amendment did not prevent loopholes such as literacy tests, and many northerners believed their jobs were done after the 15th Amendment.

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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was first formed in 1909 when two men named Du Bois and Oswald Garrison Villard both published a biography about a man named john Brown who had been executed for attempting to arm slaves and start a revolution. Finding out each others intent, they both decided to come together to form the NAACP

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1954: Brown V. Board of Education           

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1954: Brown V. Board of Education           

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This was the case that said racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. As a result of Brown V. Board schools began to mix.

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Four black freshman at North Carolina A&T entered a Woolworth's and sat at the whites only counter. They were denied service, but stayed there until the store closed. within days this sparked hundreds of students to start "sit ins".

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The Fire Next Time is an activist manifesto written by James Baldwin, consisting of a series of essays about how black people experienced racism every day. A few of the essays were letters written to his nephew talking about the oppression he will experience, and another talking about the Emancipation Proclamation and the legacy of racism. It basically included all there was to know about racism and how it was shown throughout their history up to the modern day.

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April 3, 1963:  Demonstrations in Birmingham 

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April 3, 1963:  Demonstrations in Birmingham 

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off a series of demonstrations, brining in the city's police. Nine days later King was jailed and read a statement from his cell. Then he did something he rarely did, respond to critics in his "letter from Birmingham Jail".

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange - 1975

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange - 1975

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This play by Ntozake Shange portrayed the lives and experiences of Black women. It discussed abuse, joy, heartbreak, strength, weakness, love, and longing for love. Some feared that it would strengthen stereotypes of both Black men and Black women, but what they really feared was its powerful messages of antiracism and Black feminism.

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley - 1976

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley - 1976

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A seven-hundred-page book that eventually became a miniseries that was the most watched show in television history. It blew up the ideas of slaves being lazy and animalistic, and slave owners being kind and generous to their slaves.

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Angela Davis gives a speech for the "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994" conference - January 13, 1994

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Angela Davis gives a speech for the "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994" conference - January 13, 1994

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Angela Davis was the closing speaker for this conference, which was held at MIT. She gave a speech proposing a "new abolitionism" that called for a rethinking of prisons and how they function. At that point in time, Angela Davis was known for defending all Black women, even those who others would not defend. She was America's most famous Black woman academic, and has been an unwavering antiracist.

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A study published in 2000 confirmed what should have been presumed from the start: that differences in skin tone reflect no significant genetic differences. Despite this study occuring at the turn of the 21st century, many people (including President Bill Clinton) reacted as if this was news.

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Presidential candidate (at the time) Barack Obama gives a speech, discussing racial tensions, white privilege, and racial inequality in the United States.

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November 4th, 2008: President Barack Obama

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November 4th, 2008: President Barack Obama

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The United States vote for their first Black POTUS.

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#BlackLivesMatter was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi as a direct response to racist backlash in the form of police brutality. It signified that in order to truly be antiracists, we must also oppose all the sexism, homophobia, colorism, ethnocentrism, nativism, cultural prejudice, and class bias filled with racism that harm so many Black lives. It started in social media, and quickly became part of antiracist projects around the country. #BlackLivesMatter quickly transformed from an antiracist love declaration into an antiracist movement that would sweep the country.