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Slavery in North America
During this time period Africans were brought over to work fields in harsh working and living conditions. They were all freed in 1864 -
Missouri Compromise
The compromise was ment to balence powers between slave staes and free states in congress. The line that defined if a future state were to become free or slave was at 36° 30´. -
Civil War
The civil war was fought to keep the U.S. together. Many people blamed President Lincoln for the war but he was trying to both keep the country together and give the slaves there freedom. Lincoln had to negotiate with the south to stay so he had to give up on the rights to slaves. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was down in Mississippi visiting family. One day when at the store he flirted with a white woman. A few days later, two men kidnapped Till from his uncle’s home. Till was brutally murdered and was found a few days after the killing, he dies at the age of 14. All evidence in the case pointed to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam. Although the men where guilty the jury of all white males found them not guilty, even though they admitted to taking Till from his uncle’s home. -
Sixteenth Baptist Church
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
King was standing on the balcony at the motel where he was staying when a bullet entered his cheek, exited through his neck and stopped in his shoulder. He passed away just over an hour later. James Earl Ray, an escaped convict, was found and tried for King’s murder.
