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Slaves Picking Cotton

The first African slaves brought to the English colonies in America arrived in the early 17th century. Slaves Picking Cotton. Cotton was the most important crop in the south before the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 ). ABOLITIONISTS.

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Slaves Picking Cotton

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  1. The first African slaves brought to the English colonies in America arrived in the early 17th century.

  2. Slaves Picking Cotton • Cotton was the most important crop in the south before the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 )

  3. ABOLITIONISTS • SOJOURNER TRUTH- First Black woman to crusade for Abolition of slavery • ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Abolished Slavery in 1865

  4. JIM CROW LAWS • The 1880s witnessed a profusion of segregationist legislation, separating blacks and whites. • The system of Southern segregation was often called the Jim Crow system.

  5. JIM CROW LAWS • Jim Crow laws prohibited intermarriage, segregated the schools, and separated the races in buses, trains and restaurants.

  6. JIM CROW LAWS

  7. JIM CROW LAWS • Signs were set up to separate facilities saying “White” and “ Coloured” appearing on parks, toilets, waiting rooms, theatres and water fountains.

  8. KU KLUX KLAN The Ku Klux Klan was a white underground terrorist group. They dressed in white to stress their beliefs that whites were superior to blacks.

  9. KU KLUX KLAN They created a wave of terror which included threats, violence bullying, lynching, setting fire to buildings and murder among blacks and those who tried to help them.

  10. JIM CROW LAWS • Whites were to sit at front of the bus and fill seats towards the rear. Blacks were to sit in the back of the bus and fill seats towards the front. If the bus was so crowded that a white person had to stand, a black bus rider was required to give up his seat to the white person.

  11. Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. – December 1, 1955 in Montgomery.What happened? She was arrested.

  12. MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT • The civil right movement started. • Reverend Martin Luther King was the leader. • Blacks started a bus boycott to desegregate buses.

  13. BUS BOYCOTT

  14. MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. • A national symbol of the new black resistance to segregation laws. • Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott • Organized many non-violent racial protests • He delivered his most famous speech: “ I have a dream” in 1963 • Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned racial discrimination in public places • Voting Rights Act of 1965 which gave the U.S Government the right to register blacks to vote in southern states.

  15. Malcolm X Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman John F. Kennedy Sojourner Truth Nelson Mandela Ella Baker

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