https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3 1619-Current en-us 2020-11-30 20:19:41 UTC 2020-11-30 22:14:23 UTC hello@padlet.com haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973379713 To satisfy the labor needs of the rapidly growing North American colonies, white European settlers turned in the early 17th century from indentured servants (mostly poorer Europeans) to a cheaper, more plentiful labor source: enslaved Africans.]]> 2020-11-30 20:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973379713 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973386648 As the growth of the cotton industry led inexorably to an increased demand for enslaved Africans, the prospect of slave rebellion—such as the one that triumphed in Haiti in 1791—drove slaveholders to make increased efforts to prevent a similar event from happening in the South.]]> 2020-11-30 20:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973386648 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973393065 Though the Union victory in the Civil War gave some 4 million enslaved people their freedom, significant challenges awaited during the Reconstruction period. The 13th Amendment, adopted late in 1865, officially abolished slavery, but the question of freed Black peoples’ status in the post–war South remained.]]> 2020-11-30 20:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973393065 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973408376 Also known as the Black Renaissance or the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics turned their attention seriously to African American literature, music, art and politics.]]> 2020-11-30 20:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973408376 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973420255 During World War II, many African Americans were ready to fight for what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the “Four Freedoms”—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear—even while they themselves lacked those freedoms at home. More than 3 million Black Americans would register for service during the war, with some 500,000 seeing action overseas.]]> 2020-11-30 20:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973420255 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973423962 On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.]]> 2020-11-30 20:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973423962 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973426389 On December 1, 1955, an African American woman named Rosa Parks was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Parks refused and was arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation ordinances, which mandated that Black passengers sit in the back of public buses and give up their seats for white riders if the front seats were full. ]]> 2020-11-30 20:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973426389 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973433480 The last leader to appear was the Baptist preacher Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), who spoke eloquently of the struggle facing Black Americans and the need for continued action and nonviolent resistance. “I have a dream,” King intoned, expressing his faith that one day white and Black people would stand together as equals, and there would be harmony between the races: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”]]> 2020-11-30 20:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973433480 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973445687 On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; he is the first African American to hold that office. ]]> 2020-11-30 21:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973445687 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973448326 The term “Black lives matter” was first used by organizer Alicia Garza in a July 2013 Facebook post in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Florida man who shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. Martin’s death set off nationwide protests like the Million Hoodie March. In 2013, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi formed the Black Lives Matter Network with the mission to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.” ]]> 2020-11-30 21:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973448326 haileyhicks2 https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973451410 The movement swelled to a critical juncture on May 25, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic when 46-year-old George Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin. ]]> 2020-11-30 21:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/haileyhicks2/nno68ylremrgxzt3/wish/973451410