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Civil Rights Movement
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American Civil War
The Civil Movement begins here, with the civil war. The North realized how poorly the slaves were being treated down in the south so they decided to try to have them go free. The slave owners, however, did not want them to go free so conflict broke out. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was the document that ended the Civil War. It freed all slaves from slavery and gave them freedom. However even though lost. slave owners were still angry and therfore began the lynchings and Jim Crow etiquette -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
This act enforced black people into segregation or being seperated from the whites. The "equal but seperate facilities" didn't come until 1890 but this said that they could be forced into seperation and cleary stated the racism is okay because it isn't in the Constitution. -
Hamburg Massacre
Benjamin Tillman was a commander of a militia that supperessed black votes and made sure to have the whites supreme over all the races. In this massacre (multiple lynchings) many of the executioners were part of this militia. -
Plessy vs. Ferguaon
This proved legally that the goverment should keep segregation. In order to calm the masses, the decided to coin the term "seperate but equal facilities". Of course this never happened and thus blacks forced into even more racism and seperation. -
Woodrow Wilson
This US President made an order that re-segreagation should be allowed to come back in because segregation was no longer really used. After that this President segregation was okay, segration bumbed up considerably. -
Black Docters
As people may try to stop the Civil Rights Movement they just couldn't. Things began to look up for African-Americans and they were finally have there first black docter. It was Orlando, Florida when they finally let adocter be black. -
Jesse Owens
In front of one of the most racist people, Hitler, Jesse Owens showed to him the black people to not just as well as white people can do it but sometimes even better the white people. Jesse Owens was a respectable man for being able to stand up against Hitler. -
Miami's Polcie Force
Not only have the black people become doctors now, they can actually be part of the goverment. Miami hired a completely black squad to help around in the task force. It was bold step for the mistreated African-Americans to be part of law enforcment. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, when she was young was sitting on a bus in the front seat. Obviously she was not allowed to sit there and so when she was asked to get up and go to the back, she refused. The bus driver kicked her out and thus, since the majority of people who take the bus are black, she began a boycott. Without the majority of the customers the bus system was forced to say sorry and thus began the turning point for black history.
