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Declaration of independence
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman made 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for. -
What to the slave, is the 4th of July-Douglass
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Frederik Douglass
After escaping from slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York. He escaped in September 1838 by dressing as a sailor and traveling from Baltimore to Wilmington, Delaware, by train, then on to Philadelphia by steamboat, and from there to New York City by train. After escaping, he published a newspaper in Rochester, New York, called The North Star, to promote freedom for all slaves. -
Lincolns Second Inaugural Address-Lincoln
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Brown v Board of Education
This event was a landmark supreme court case in 1954 that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the United States. The case was brought by African American plaintiffs, including Oliver Brown, who challenged the separate but equal doctrine established in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. This decision marked a significant step in the Civil Rights Movement, paving the way for the desegregation of schools and challenging institutionalized racism in America. -
Rosa Park
Rosa Park helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation, and organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon and Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Park was also active in the Black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US. -
Letter to my nephew-Baldwin
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Birmingham Campaign
Birmingham Campaign was also known as Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched the American movement in early 1963 to draw attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States. -
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr Providing leadership in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Being instrumental in establishing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, a civil rights organization that supports the philosophy of nonviolence. He expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War in the final years of his life. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. This march happen in august 1963. -
Watts Riots
The Watts Riots, often referred to as the Watts Rebellion, were a string of violent riots that broke out in August 1965 in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California. Long-standing racial tensions, poverty, and police brutality in the primarily African American neighborhood caused the riots. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. He died at 7:05 pm at St. Joseph's hospital. -
John R.Lewis
He was the youngest leader during the height of the civil rights movement. He was the key note speaker at the march on Washington. During college he was one of the co-founders of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC). -
Between the world and me-Coates
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George Floyd is killed by a police officer, igniting historic protests
In may 25,2020 Geroge Floyd went to a convenience store to buy some cigarettes and Clerk called the police and reported saying George Floyd payed with a fake 20 dollar bill. white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin came a few minutes later and tried to put Floyd in the police car but he said he was claustrophobic. They took him out and Derek Chauvin had him pinned to the ground for almost 10 minutes.