https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby George en-us 2021-12-07 00:56:47 UTC 2025-04-07 15:09:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932421490 A significant starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The crew had seized the Africans from the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jao Bautista. This event is the initial trigger to the history of black prejudice as this is the starting point of 'utilizing' blacks as tools to work (slaves), looking down on them, treating them like without morals or respect.]]> 2021-12-07 01:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932421490 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932429223 The first steps toward official segregation came in the form of “Black Codes.” Black codes were strict local and state laws that detailed when, where and how formerly enslaved people could work, and for how much compensation. The codes appeared throughout the South as a legal way to put Black citizens into indentured servitude, to take voting rights away, to control where they lived and how they traveled and to seize children for labor purposes. These laws are part of the reason why the United States was and to an extent, still systemically dysfunctional in terms of prejudice in civil law systems.]]> 2021-12-07 01:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932429223 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932431265 Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens. Sparking a sustained bus boycott that inspired mass protests elsewhere to speed the pace of civil rights reform. This was significant also because this was one of the first definitive acts against black segregation.]]> 2021-12-07 01:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1932431265 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1939513905 Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws. This event was highly significant because it brought the systemic dysfunction in America to the international stage.]]> 2021-12-10 02:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1939513905 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1943912511 The speech delivered by Martin Luther King on august 1963 'I have a Dream' was a call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history. This is significant because the speech brought civil rights and the call for African-American rights and freedom to the forefront of Americans' consciousness.]]> 2021-12-13 07:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1943912511 00101562_1 https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1943917500 Bloody Sunday involved around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. This became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement. The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act.]]> 2021-12-13 08:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/00101562_1/dmlzzg53gdvd0bby/wish/1943917500