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Dec 10, 1492
CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS
"Discovery of America". -
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SLAVERY IN USA
In the 1865, after the civil war Lincoln president of United States abolishes OFFICIALY slavely. -
SLAVERY IS ATTESTED IN SOME STATES
Maryland,Carolina -
BLACK CODES
Black people are deprived of their rights and they become slaves for life in the United States. -
ABOLISH OF SLAVELY
Some states begins to abolish slavely as Massachusetts and United States slaves are gradually are released by their leader -
SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY CONGRESS
From this date slave trade stops in a large part of America -
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CIVIL WAR
This war opposed Abraham Lincoln (United States) and because Jefferson Davisis against abolition. In the end of the war the North for stops abolition win for the South. -
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
He held important political positions and campaigned for the adoption of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution (respectively the abolition of slavery, the definition of citizenship and the prohibition of the denial of the right to vote based on the race and color). -
ROSA PARKS
She is black woman who fights against racial segregation with Martin Lutter King. She boycott Montgomery's bus to oppose to the racial municipal campagne because she refuse to give way to whitemen in a public bus. -
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
He fought all his life against racial segregation in the United States and he was murdered by James Earl Ray in st Joseph's Hospital Memphis on 4th april 1968 -
TOMMIE SMITH ET JOHN CARLOS
These two athletes are the first black Americans to win the Olympics. But during their graduation, they raised their arms in the air to denounce the poverty of black Americans. -
BARACK OBAMA
He was the first black president of the United States. it's the success of the fight of the blacks americans
