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Dred Scott sued for his freedom
-The cases were allowed because a Missouri statute stated that any person, black or white, held in wrongful enslavement could sue for freedom.
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When was slavery abolished in United States
-Although the international slave trade was prohibited from 1808, internal slave-trading continued, and the slave population would eventually peak at four million before abolition.
-Of all 1,515,605 free families in the fifteen slave states in 1860, nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four, or 25%),amounting to 8% of all American families
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Death of Abraham Lincoln
- was shot while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. -Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. -He wanted to preliminary proclamation mancipation( free the slaves) -catalyst of the civil war -assinated by John boot
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American Civil War
-was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865, after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
-The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territor
-After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began. -
Women get the right to vote
-white women could vote in a federal election and by 1920 they could hold public office.
-Most women of colour: Black, Chinese etc did not get the right to vote until the 1940s.
-Believe it or not, full right to vote was never granted to Canadian women until 1960.
-The reason for that is because not all the provinces had given women the right to vote on the provincial level. Women could hold public office on the federal level; yet, still did not have the right to vote everywhere in Canada. -
March on Washington for jobs and freedom
-The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom".
-Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000.
-Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism -
Holocaust
-was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories.
-For 1938-1944 Hitler put mostly jews into concentration camps, with poor living conditions, no food and then killed.(gas chambers)
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Death of Emmett Till
-Was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
-They took the Emmett away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.
-His mom had a open casket at the funeral to show the world what people had done to her son. -
Rosa Parks
- was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. -she was arrested for it , symbolic of racial segregation
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
- a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect.
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Affirmative Action
-is the policy of providing special opportunities for, and favoring members of, a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination.
- in the United States in Executive Order 10925 and was signed by President John F. Kennedy
-in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 which required government employers to take "affirmative action" to "hire without regard to race, religion and national origin".
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Death of Medgar Evers
-was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi.
-Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens' Council.
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Death of John F. Kennedy
-Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. (at the texas parade)
-Wanted to end segregation
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Civil Right Act in the United State
- is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
- It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").
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Segregation ended in the United States
-1964 segregation was banned
-1954 out lawed segregation in public school
- when the slavery changed more people believed segregation to they where still not equal
- The expression most often refers to the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from other races, but also applies to the separation of other minorities from the majority mainstream communities. -
Death of Malcolm X
-born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
-was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.(civil right activist more extremist, he wanted to rise up)
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Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
-He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39.
-Fought the institutional racisium (in working environment)
- I have a dream speech
-King received death threats constantly due to his prominence in the civil rights movement. As a consequence of these threats, he confronted death constantly, making it a central part of his philosophy. He believed, and taught that murder could not stop the struggle for equal rights. -
Homosexuality become legal in canada
-Pierre Trudeau,was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, decriminalised homosexuality
-the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968-69 (Bill C-150) passed in Canada, making it not a crime for 2 consenting adults of at least 21 years of age to engage in anal intercourse. The age was later lowered to 18. -
Assult of Rodney King
- was an African-American construction worker who became nationally known after being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991. A local witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of it from his balcony. -the cops were acquitted of all charges
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Canadian Delwin Vriend
-Vriend, who was open within his congregation about being in a same-sex relationship, was fired because his sexual orientation was deemed incompatible with a newly created statement of religious belief adopted by The Kings College.
-Vriend attempted to file a discrimination complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, but was refused on the grounds that sexual orientation was not protected under the province's human rights code. He subsequently sued the Government of Alberta. -
First country to legalize same-sex marriage
-The Netherlands was the first country to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage in 2001, when their Parliament voted 107-33 to eliminate discrimination from their marriage laws. The law requires that at least one member of the couple be a Dutch national or live in the Netherlands, and it took effect on April 1, 2001. -
Same-sex marriage in canada
-Canada became the fourth country in the world, and the first country outside Europe, to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which provided a gender-neutral marriage definition.
-The Civil Marriage Act was introduced by Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal minority government in the Canadian House of Commons on February 1, 2005 as Bill C-38. It was passed by the House of Commons on June 28, 2005. -
Death of Trayvon Martin
- in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student. -George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic, was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place. -According to Zimmerman's subsequent testimony, Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two -Simmerman was found not guilty.
