African American Studies by

African American Studies by https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2019-04-12 14:55:41 UTC 2019-04-12 16:28:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Slavery comes to North America , 1619 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351193202 Beginning around 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 Africans ashore at the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, slavery spread quickly through the American colonies]]> 2019-04-12 15:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351193202 Rise of the cotton industry, 1793 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351210968 The cotton gin was widely copied, and within a few years the South would transition from a dependence on the cultivation of tobacco to that of cotton]]> 2019-04-12 15:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351210968 Nat Turner’s Revolt, August 1831 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351211476 Nat Turner’s Revolt, August 1831

Turner inherited a passionate hatred of slavery from his African–born mother and came to see himself as anointed by God to lead his people out of bondage

]]> 2019-04-12 15:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351211476 Dred Scott case, March 6, 1857 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351213428 On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Scott v. Sanford, delivering a resounding victory to southern supporters of slavery and arousing the ire of northern abolitionists]]> 2019-04-12 16:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351213428 NAACP Founded 1909 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351216105 A wave of race riots—particularly one in Springfield, Illinois in 1908—lent a sense of urgency to the Niagara Movement and its supporters, who in 1909 joined their agenda with that of a new permanent civil rights organization]]> 2019-04-12 16:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351216105 Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, 1916 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351217329 After an unsuccessful appeal to the League of Nations to settle a colony in Africa and failed negotiations with Liberia, Garvey announced the formation of the Empire of Africa in 1921, with himself as provisional president.]]> 2019-04-12 16:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351217329 Harlem Renaissance, 1920 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351217750 In the 1920s, the great migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North sparked an African–American cultural renaissance that took its name from the New York City neighborhood of Harlem but became a widespread movement in cities throughout the North and West

]]> 2019-04-12 16:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351217750 African-Americans in WWII 1914 karelly_perez01 https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351222161 More than 3 million blacks would register for service during the war, with some 500,000 seeing action overseas. According to War Department policy, enlisted blacks and whites were organized into separate units]]> 2019-04-12 16:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/karelly_perez01/kczx4qms7i6y/wish/351222161