https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux en-us 2017-04-11 18:05:55 UTC 2017-04-25 10:00:28 UTC hello@padlet.com rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165952579 In 1619 the first black slaves are brought to America from Angola. They are sold in a special slave action in Jamestown, Virginia. Most slaves work on the large tabacco, sugar and cotton plantations. 40 million Africans are shipped as slaves to America. Many die on the journey.]]> 2017-04-11 18:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165952579 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165954324 1662 Anthony Johnson becomes the first free African-American. He buys his freedom and creates the first free black community.]]> 2017-04-11 18:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165954324 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165955263 1775 the Pennsylvanian Society for the Abolition of Slavery is the first American organisation to  fight against slavery. its president is Benjamin Franklin.]]> 2017-04-11 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165955263 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165956282 1777 Vermont is the first state to ablish slavery.]]> 2017-04-11 18:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165956282 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165956732 1852 The Underground Railway is an anti-slavery organisation that helps slaves who have escaped to cross the border into Canada. ]]> 2017-04-11 18:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165956732 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165957576 1861-1865 Civili war breaks out between the Confederate Southern states and the Union. In 1865 the Union wins and Slavery is abolished.]]> 2017-04-11 18:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165957576 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165958085 1868-1875 many arnendments are made to the constitution to give civil rights to African-Americans.]]> 2017-04-11 18:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165958085 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165958770 1890 Segregation laws are introduced in Suthern states in a series of "jim Crow" laws. Blacks are segregated from whites on public transport and in public places.]]> 2017-04-11 18:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165958770 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165963445 1920 The African-American cultural movement called the Harlem-Renaissance is at its height in the 1920. Jazz and Blues became popular and musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are famous. ]]> 2017-04-11 19:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165963445 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165964540 2017-04-11 19:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165964540 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165964619 2017-04-11 19:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165964619 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165966116 1856 Rosa Parks is arrested for violating segregation when she refuses to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery. 
Alabama Black civil rights activists, led by Martin Luther King, boycott all city buses in protest. After one year the laws are abolished.]]> 2017-04-11 19:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165966116 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165967164 1963 Martin Luther King leads a march of more than 250000 people in Washington and delivers his famous speech: "I have a dream''. In 1964 King is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.]]> 2017-04-11 19:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165967164 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165968245 1965 The Contraversial black activist Malcom X is assasinated, 'X' represents the unknown African name of his ancestors.]]> 2017-04-11 19:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165968245 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165968986 1967 Champion boxer Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam war. His passport is taken away and he is banned from boxing. Ali wns the legal battle to return to boxing in 1971 and becomes World Champion.]]> 2017-04-11 19:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165968986 rebeccalagalante2003 https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165970257 1993 Toni Morrison becomes the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ]]> 2017-04-11 19:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccalagalante2003/u53g33cel5ux/wish/165970257