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Rosa parks is arrested for violating segretation laws when she refuses to give her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery. Alabama Black civil rights activist, led by Martin Luther King, boycott all city buses in protest. After one year the laws are abolished
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The great jazz and blues singer, records strange fruit about blacks being lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in the Southerm states
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Jazz and blues become popular and musicians such as Louis Armostrong and Dake Ellington are famous
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Segretation laws are introduced in Southem states. Black are segregated from whites on public transport and in public places
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Many amendements (cahnges) are made to the cosntitution to give civil rights to African-Americans
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Civil war breaks out between the Confederate Southem states.In 1865 the Union wins and slavery is abolished
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The Underground Railsway is an anti-slavery organisation that helps slaves who have escaped to cross the border into Canada
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Uncle Tom's Cabin', by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is the first anti-slavery novel
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Vermont is the first state to abolish slavery
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The pennyslvanian society for abolition of SLAVERY is the first american organisation to fight against slavery its president is Benjamin Frenklin
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becomes the firs free African-American
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are brought to America from Angola.Most slaves work on the large tabacco ,sugar,cotton
