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The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the British Province of New York, of 23 enslaved Africans. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than three times that number of blacks, 70, were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.
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The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution is formally adopted. It said that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, exclude as a punishment for crime shall exist within the United States."
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Jim Crow's laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States. "Separate but equals"
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It was writtern by Victor Hugo Green. In the Green Book we can find many addresses just for colored people.
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Rosa Park refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man and because of it she was arrested.
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Ruby Bridges was 6 when she became the first African-American child to integrate a White Southern elementary school. Escorted to class by her mother and US marshals due to violence.
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Martin Luther King's speech was delivered during th eMarch on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in which he called for civil and economic rightd and an end to racism in the USA.
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Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African-American governor in virginia
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