https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1 en-us 2017-01-18 15:25:43 UTC 2017-01-18 16:05:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147841595 Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries. ]]> 2017-01-18 15:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147841595 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147844045 By the end of the 19th century, Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs that oppressed blacks.]]> 2017-01-18 15:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147844045 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147845738 By 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used as a collective racial epithet for blacks,]]> 2017-01-18 15:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147845738 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147847918  The popularity of minstrel shows aided the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur. ]]> 2017-01-18 15:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147847918 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147849033 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases of 1883 that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. ]]> 2017-01-18 15:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147849033 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147850062 Supreme Court upheld the concept of separate but equal public facilities; thereby, offering approval of Jim Crow laws nationwide.]]> 2017-01-18 15:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147850062 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147851065 Founded in 1915 and inspired by the Reconstruction-era organization of the same name, the second Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes. ]]> 2017-01-18 15:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147851065 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147852921 Nine Black boys tried for raping two White women. The defendants were hastily and wrongly convicted, but by 1950 all were free by parole, appeal, or escape.]]> 2017-01-18 16:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147852921 00seakel10926 https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147853578 President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal.]]> 2017-01-18 16:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/00seakel10926/dz6y6j4ncuf1/wish/147853578