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Frederick Douglass escape From Slavery
Frederick Douglass lived a remarkable life. Born in 1818 on Maryland's Eastern Shore, his mother was a slave, his father an unknown white man. Eventually he was sent to Baltimore where he worked as a ship's caulker in the thriving seaport. He made his dash to freedom from there in 1838. His ability to eloquently articulate the plight of the slave through his various publications and public speeches brought him international renown. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends,using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. -
The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism. 1st Klan 1865–1870s. unknown members.
2nd Klan 1915–1944. 3,000,000–6,000,000 members.
3rd Klan 1946–present. 5,000–8,000 members. -
The first Klan.
The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be outlandish and terrifying, and to hide their identities. -
The second Klan.
The second KKK flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, and adopted a standard white costume and code words as the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades. It stressed opposition to the Catholic Church. -
The third Klan.
The third KKK emerged in the form of small local unconnected groups after 1950. They focused on opposition to the Civil Rights Movement, often using threats of violence. The second and third incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan made frequent reference to the America's "Anglo-Saxon" blood, harkening back to 19th-century nativism.Though most members of the KKK saw themselves as holding to American values and Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially denounced the KKK. -
Martin Luther King.
Martin Luther King, civil rights activist from his youth, organized and carried out various peaceful activities demanding the right to vote, non-discrimination and other basic civil rights for black people in the United States. -
Rosa Parks.
It was an important figure in African-American Civil Rights Movement, especially for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus in the southern United States, December 1, 1955. -
Martin Luther King speech.
In August 1963 200.000people met in Washington and heard Martin Luther King speak about the need for black people to be equal with white people. He began with these words, wich have became famous: "I have a dream..." -
Martin Luther King and the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1964, a law was passed which gave black people their rights and Martin Luther KIng was given the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It is a historical law within US law as prohibited discriminatory practices in voting rights to African Americans in the United States. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King.
He was murdered in Memphis by James Earl Ray and fighting started in more than a hundred cities. -
After the dead of King.
During the 1970s and 1980s, prejudice against black people slowly began to appear less often, and many black people now have good jobs in business and government. -
Condoleezza Rice.
A black woman like Condoleezza Rice can represent the American goverment in other countries and perhaps even think about becoming president. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans in 2005, most of the people who lost their houses were black. Many of them waiter a long time for help from the government.
