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Africans from the west coast of Africa was brought to American colonies against their will, and were sold as slaves to work in farms and such.
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A war about ending slavery or not (one of the topics). The southern states wanted to keep on with the slavetrading while President Lincoln and "his states" wanted to end slavery.
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Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Lincoln, and made all slaves free. But it then came laws saying that black people could not mix with white, own land or vote.
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Black people started to fight against apartheid using demostartions, boycotts and speeches. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the movement. and his work gave him two nobels peace-prizes, one in 1964 and one in 1968. After this movement, black and white could now mix.
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Barack Obama was elected for president in 2009 as the first black president of the United States of America.
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Alicia Graza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi creat a political movemetn for black peoples right til life, after the murder of Trayvon Martin.