Black history

  • Anthony Johnson

    Anthony Johnson

    was the first free Afro-American. He bought his freedom and created the first free black community.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    was the first president of the Pennsylvanian Society, that fought for the abolition of slavery in America.
  • Vermont

    Vermont

    was the first state to abolish slavery
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    published her book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, the first novel against slavery. It’s about a slave killed by his master.
  • Underground Railway

    Underground Railway

    an anti-slavery organization was created, It helped slaves to escape, crossing the border into Canada.
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    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.
  • Slavery was abolished

    Slavery was abolished

    Civil War ended and the UNION ( the Northern States) won it and slavery was abolished.
  • Civil Righs

    Civil Righs

    After the Civil War, FIRST CIVIL RIGHTS were given to African -Americans.
  • Segregation Laws

    Segregation Laws

    separated the Whites from the Blacks in public places and transport.
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    was a famous cultural movement JAZZ and BLUES became really popular. LOUIS ARMSTRONG and DUKE ELLINGTON were famous jazz and blues musicians.
  • Billie Holliday

    Billie Holliday

    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.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    a Black woman was arrested because she didn’t give her bus seat to a white man on a bus, in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King

    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.
  • Malcom X

    Malcom X

    the black activist was assassinated. “ X “ represented the unknown African name of his ancestors.
  • Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali

    a champion boxer, refused to join the Vietnam War in 1967 and he was banned from boxing. In 1971 Ali became World Champion.
  • Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison

    the Nobel Prize for Literature was won by the African-American
  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela

    an anti -apartheid activist, became the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT in South Africa
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama

    ecame the first Afro-American president of the USA.