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was the first free Afro-American. He bought his freedom and created the first free black community. -
was the first president of the Pennsylvanian Society, that fought for the abolition of slavery in America. -
was the first state to abolish slavery -
published her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, the first novel against slavery. It’s about a slave killed by his master. -
an anti-slavery organization was created, It helped slaves to escape, crossing the border into Canada. -
broke out between the South and the North because the Southern States or the “ Confederacy”supported slavery While the Northern States or the “Union” opposed slavery. -
Civil War ended and the UNION ( the Northern States) won it and slavery was abolished. -
After the Civil War, FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS were given to African -Americans. -
separated the Whites from the Blacks in public places and transport. -
was a famous cultural movement JAZZ and BLUES became really popular. LOUIS ARMSTRONG and DUKE ELLINGTON were famous jazz and blues musicians. -
the great jazz and blues singer, recorded the song “ Strange Fruit”, about blacks lynched by the Ku Klux Klan ( a hate group against African- Americans, Jews and Immigrants) in the Southern States. -
a Black woman was arrested because she didn’t give her bus seat to a white man on a bus, in Montgomery, Alabama. -
was the leader of the black civil rights movement. Black civil activists, led by M. L. king, started a protest, after Rosa Parks’arrest; they boycotted all city buses and after one year the segregation laws on buses were abolished. M. L. King led a big MARCH IN WASHINGTON. -
the black activist was assassinated. “ X “ represented the unknown African name of his ancestors. -
a champion boxer, refused to join the Vietnam War in 1967 and he was banned from boxing. In 1971 Ali became World Champion. -
the Nobel Prize for Literature was won by the African-American -
an anti -apartheid activist, became the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT in South Africa -
ecame the first Afro-American president of the USA.