https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec Start of Slavery to now en-us 2017-02-13 18:03:55 UTC 2026-02-06 13:22:41 UTC hello@padlet.com m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/153515064 As stated by the National Park Services The first documented arrival of Africans to the colony of Virginia was recorded by John Rolfe: "About the latter end of August, a Dutch man of Warr of the burden of a 160 tunes arrived at Point-Comfort, the Comandors name Capt Jope,]]> 2017-02-13 18:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/153515064 m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/153831658 Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American slave who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion (August 1831) in U.S. history. Cited from History.com Staff. "Nate Turner" History.com. Accessed 6 Feb. 2017.]]> 2017-02-14 18:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/153831658 m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154383384 What is gathered from the article is that he Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many individuals -- many whites but predominently black -- who knew only of the local efforts to aid fugitives and not of the overall operation. Still, it effectively moved hundreds of slaves northward each year. Cited from "The Underground Railroad"  PBS.org. Accessed 6 Feb.1017]]> 2017-02-16 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154383384 m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154385187 From the site, Robinson stood up for equal rights even before he did so in baseball. At the end of his first season, Robinson was named the Rookie of the Year. He was named the NL MVP just two years later in 1949. The impact Robinson made on Major League Baseball is one that will be forever remembered. Cited from "Jackie Robinson" baseballhall.org. Accessed 17 Feb. 2017.]]> 2017-02-16 17:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154385187 m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154636131 It is a speech of a dream of freedom. That people will be joining together and becoming one. It is about equal rights and that discrimination would no longer be a thing to society. Cited from "Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech August 28 1963"  let.rug.nl. Accessed 17 Feb. 2017.]]> 2017-02-17 16:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154636131 m32080 https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154638385 From what the article states.Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. The King family and others believe that the assassination was carried out by a conspiracy involving the U.S. government, as alleged by Loyd Jowers in 1993, and that Ray was a scapegoat. Cited from "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." wikipedia.org. Accessed 17 Feb. 2017.]]> 2017-02-17 16:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/m32080/swl7i5e3m2ec/wish/154638385