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date: around 1415
zurara was considered the first racist because he was the first person to write down his racist ideas.

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date: 1577
people believed that the reason some people were black was becuase they were cursed by god. this is becuase they were told not to have a child on the ark and a group of people did so they were cursed.

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people believed the reason black people were supposedly savages was becuase the hot climate where they were from made them this way. this is why thy wanted to make them slaves becuase they thought it would make them change into white people.

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1600's
Cotton Mather was an extremely smart man that was was extremely religious. he believed his stutter was given to him by god form a sin he had made so when he didn't have it anymore he believed god had taken it away as a gift. he also was interested in witchcraft so he wrote a book about it which caused people to believe that black people were witches because darkness means black.

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1700's
Phillis Wheatley was an adopted slave that was used in replace for a daughter. This meant she had an education and was taught manners, writing, etc. To racists, this was incredible, because she was an intelligent Black woman. She was studied by 18 White males to see if a Black woman could really be that smart. She answered every question right, and proved to the males that she was ¨human¨.

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In the late 1700s, most White people wanted their slaves to count for the amount of votes they got but they didn't want to pay extra for their taxes. someone came up with the 3/5 compromise as a way to  compromise and give the people what they wanted. They counted slaves as 3/5 of a person to get their numbers up for the vote but they didn't have to pay full price for the taxes that came with having more people.

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date: 1743-1826
Thomas Jefferson was a politician in the late 1700 into the early 1800s, before he died on July 4, 1826. he was believed to be anti racist, then later on wanted to keep his own slaves while he was trying to get rid of slavery.

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Date: 1700s
Gabriel and Nancy Prosser were Black slaves in the late 1700s. They were a couple that planned what would have been the biggest slave revolt in North America, until two slaves snitched. They had recruited hundreds of slaves and they were going to come from everywhere. The plan was to march on Richmond, Virginia, steal 4,000 unguarded muskets, arrest the governor, and hold the city until the rest of the rebels arrived. They would then negotiate the end of slavery and the establishment of equal rights. Unfortunately, because Governor James Monroe caught wind of it from the snitches, Gabriel Prosser was caught and hung.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from 1861-1865. Lincoln tended to talk out of three sides of his mouth. One side was wanting slavery to end, but he didnt think they should have equal rights, and he also argued that the end of slavery would bolster the poor White communities. So, he wanted to appeal to Blacks, racists, and poor Whites. Essentially, Abraham Lincoln was mainly an assimilationist, but similar to W.E.B. Du Bois, turned to anti-racism later in his life.

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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were all passed in the late 1860s, and were passed to help Black people. They were known as the Civil War Amendments, as they were passed after the Civil War, and the goal was for them to end slavery and give Black men the right to vote. This, of course, left many loopholes for White racists to bypass that and prevent Blacks to vote.

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W.E.B. Du Bois was raised along with his brother in Massachusetts, by his single mother. His dream was to go to Harvard, the all-White school for rich, smart Whites only. He ended up going to Fisk University, in Nashville, where he learned how to win over Whites and put what he learned about assimilation into practice. He did get into Harvard for a postgraduate degree. He lived a long life from the late 1800s-mid 1900s.

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Du Bois and Booker T. Washington had the same goal, Black freedom, but couldn't have disagreed more about how to get there. Washington stepped into his role as the leader of Black America as he advised Blacks to be happy working the fields and doing hard labor. He was an assimilationist in the mid 1800s and always fought against W.E.B. Du Bois.

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The Talented Tenth was a group of ¨positive¨ Black representatives of the Black race. It was founded by WEB Du Bois in 1903 and it was based off of the idea that Blacks are so complex that they have two different sides of themselves; and American side and a Black side. The Talented Tenth finally rose in influence when President Roosevelt disbanded 167 Black soldiers from the 25th Infantry Regiment.

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Jack Johnson was a Black boxer in the late 1800s to early 1900s. He was the first Black heavyweight champion of the world and many boxing observers consider him to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of all time. His success scared racists because he defied racism in many ways, such as having a White woman as his wife and he also defeated a big, White name in boxing.

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The Niggerati emerged in 1926 as a force against W.E.B. Du Bois´ ideas and goals.

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MLK jr. was an Anti-Racist leader in the 1960s, he lead many protest to end Slavery and raciness. He is most famous for his 'I had a dream' speech, preaching equality and freedom. He was assassinated in April of 1968.

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September 16, 1963, Angela Davis was a junior in college when she heard about a group of girls, that she knew, were killed in a church bombing. Coming from a household where she was taught antiracism from the start, she decided to become an activist for Black rights. She became a professor at UCLA until Ronald Reagan, who was trying to weaken black power, charged her with communism and got her fired. As she tried pleading her case, she received much hate mail. Later in her life, she was defending 3 Black inmates.During this time, Angela Davis was charged for murder, as someone had used her gun to shoot at a courthouse. Angela fled and was later caught in New York many months later. On October 13, 1970 she was arrested and on June 4, 1972, she represented herself in court and was freed. To this day, Angela Davis is still an large supporter of the BLM movement, at 77 years old.

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Hip Hop is a genre of music that started to gain interested in the 1970s. Black people use it as a way to fight racism. The lyrics of the music angered young Black teens about racist mistreatment. One song that especially influenced this was Public Enemy´s ¨Fight The Power¨.

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Barrack Obama was the first black president in the USA. He was president from 2009 to 2017 serving two terms. He made many key speeches changing the view of racism in the nation and gaining him political support form the US.