1. Franklin D. Roosevelt he created the New Deal that help the U.S. recover from the Great Depression

2. Herbert Hoover he was he president right before this happened some say he did not do enough to protect the U.S. from this

3. Dust Bowl that causes a huge drought that destroyed farms and forced families to move west to search for jobs.

-The video doesn’t just focus on the struggles of slavery and Jim Crow, but also on Black agency, culture, and resistance.

-The year 1619 was a pivotal starting point marking the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English colony of Virginia, which shaped the future of the United States.

- Elizabeth key is highlighted as a significant historical figure who used the legal system to fight for her freedom during the colonial era.

Founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in California, the Black Panther Party was an organization created to protect Black neighborhoods from police brutality through armed self-defense. The group fought for and through Black power, socialism, and community "survival programs" such as free breakfast for children.

1. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale - founded the black panthers.

2. Ten Point Program - A manifesto of what goals the black panthers party planned to reach.

3. Free Breakfast Programs - Focusing on the need to give poor children nutritious meals.

• Black Lives Matter: present day, the modern political movement that shape the lives of black Americans.

• Transatlantic slave trade: A major historical system that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.

• Past experiences: Shapes the present day society.

This helped stop segregation on busses.

Rosa Parks was the women that set of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

MLK was voted to serve as the pubic face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Little Rock nine:

Nine students who went to Little Rock Central High school. They were the experimental group to Brown vs.Board of Education. They needed troops to escort them to and from school due to the fact of the student body and troops sent from the governor blocking the nine’s entrance. They each had a solider by their side.

Greensboro four:

Four college students that organized sit ins to protest against segregation in restaurants. This type of protest was spread due the these four college students.

SNCC:

An organization by young folk to promote grass-root advancements, nonviolent protests, and desegregation.

• Malcolm X: A prominent activist who promoted Black empowerment ad challenged mainstream civil rights strategies.

• National of Islam: The group Malcolm X was part of, which influenced his early beliefs.

• Black empowerment: A movement focused on racial pride, self-determination, and political power for black Americans.

-It emphasizes Black agency, creativity, and joy showcasing how people built lives, art, and communities despite systemic oppression.

-The series uses the event Hurricane Katrina to illustrate how faulty infrastructure the government response’s impact Black communities due to long-standing systemic inequalities.

-Maria Stewart was the first Black women to give a public political speech and a pioneering writer who challenged the social conventions of her time regarding both race and gender.

1. MLK who worked with Jackson where MLK influenced ideas for Jackson organization

2. economic empowerment focus operation focus pushed for boycotts and negaotions with companies to increase Black emploment

3. Jesse Jackson founder of Operation PUSH in 1971 trying to help the African AMerican people.

Supreme Court case in 1954 that ended racial segregation in public schools. The Court decided that separating Black and white students was unfair and unconstitutional, which helped advance the Civil Rights Movement.

1. Oliver Brown – A father who challenged school segregation because his daughter couldn’t attend a nearby white school.

2. Thurgood Marshall – The lawyer who argued the case and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.

3. Earl Warren – The Chief Justice who led the Supreme Court to the decision that segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

-Woman made up about 60% of the black panther party

-Women ran many black power programs

-Started black feminism

-FDR, due to the threat, signed executive order 8802, which banned racial discrimination in the defense industry

-The movement was designed to be all black to make sure they managed their own rights

-Bayard Rustin, a master strategist, also conducted legendary events like this and helped MLK in the I have a Dream Speech.