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Black history dates back to 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.
This date represents the beginning of hundreds of years of Abuse, exploitation and prejudices. -
In Jamestown, Virgina, black slaves were sold in auctions.
Black slaves worked on tobacco, cotton and rice
plantations, in the Southern States
The journey on ship to America was hard and many slaves
died. -
In 1662 Anthony Johnson created the first free black
community.
Anthony Johnson bought his freedom, becoming the 1st
free African-American. -
Benjamin Franklin was the first president of the
Pennsylvanian Society. The Pennsylvanian Society fought for the abolition
of slavery in America. -
Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Published “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, the
first novel against slavery.
In 1852 an anti-slavery organization was created. It was
called the ” Underground Railway”
The Underground Railway helped escaping slaves to cross
the border into Canada. -
The Southern States or the Confederacy supported slavery.
The Northern States or the Union opposed slavery
Between 1861 and 1865 Civil War broke out between the
South and the North of America
In 1865 Civil war ended and the Union won it and slavery
was abolished
After the Civil War first civil rights were given to African
–Americans. -
In 1890 segregation laws separated Whites from the Blacks
in public places and transport. -
The Harlem Renaissance was a widespread cultural
movement in the 1920s. Jazz and blues became really popular
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were famous jazz and
blues musicians -
A black woman, named Rosa Parks, was arrested because
she didn’t give her bus seat to a white man on a bus, in
Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 -
Martin Luther King was the leader of the black civil rights
movement
The black civil rights activists started a protest, boycotting
all city buses. In 1963 Martin Luther King led a big march in Washington
“I have a dream” is Martin Luther King’s famous speech.
In 1964 Martin Luther King won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. -
Malcom X represented the unknown African name of his
ancestors.
In 1965 Malcom X was assassinated. -
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 -
The Nobel Prize for Literature Was won by the African-
American Toni Morrison, in 1993. -
in 1994 Nelson mandela , an anti-apartheid activist,
became the first black President of South Africa. -
In 2009, Barack Obama became the first afro-American
President of the USA.