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In south America (Alabama) the black people was slave, and they worked in cotton plantation, but they was exploited and then it becomes illegale in 1865
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Before the abolition of slavery (1865) In Alabama Rosa Pasks started the bus boycott when the refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.
The boycott lasted for 11 months and it launched the Civil Rights Movement in the USA -
In Birmingham, Alabama, during a protest, students were attacked by the police. the images of the event shocked the word. After a few months, members of the Ku Klux Klan, an extreme white racist oraganization, bombed an African American church and kille four girls
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In 1964 the Civil rights act made segregation in school and pubblic places illegal.
In 1965 (100 year before the abolition of slavery 1865), after the Selma to Montgomery marches, the voting Rights Act was passed. -
Martin Luther King, the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, how was awarded the Nobel Pece Prize in 1965, was assassinated while he was helping black workers to obtain better conditions.
Riots exploded in 125 cities -
The TV Series roots, based on Alex Haley's novel, was a grat succes.
Many Americans learned about the story of slavery in the USA for the first time -
Colin Powell and Condoleenza Rice beacame state senator
this is the first time when a black comes an important political -
Barack Obama became the first African American President.
His victory was seen as an extraordinary triumph after centuries of intolerance
