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Declaration of Independence
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Angelina Grimké
The daughter of one of the wealthiest slave-owning families in Charleston, she believed slavery was a sin that God would punish. She became involved in the abolitionist movement and authored an appeal to the Christian Women of the South. The 36-page essay was published by the American Anti-Slavery Society and was burned. She remained committed and began linking the rights of enslaved people to those of women. -
William Lloyd Garrison
Started a publication called “The Liberator” that supported the immediate freeing of all enslaved peoples. He formed the American Anti-Slavery Society and proclaimed human enslavement to be a moral outrage. His group promoted their goals through public speeches, produced antislavery literature, and boycotted cotton and other products that relied upon slave labor. -
Harriet Tubman
Was an American abolitionist and social activist. She made about 13 trips back to plantations to help slaves escape in a system called the Underground Railroad. -
What to the Slave is the 4th of July
Written By: Frederick Douglass -
John Brown
A believer that slavery was evil and became a radical abolitionist. He stated, "Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery." Most famous for the Pottawatomie Massacre in which 5 pro-slavery men were killed by him and his sons. He was hanged in 1859 "becoming a martyr for the abolitionist cause" -
Frederick Douglass
He was an abolitionist towards slavery and advocate for slaves' rights. He escaped slavery and as a new man wrote and delivered speeches on anti-slavery. He was a pivotal figure in the movement and was very influential on many including Lincoln. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by President Lincoln as the third year of the Civil War approached. It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." After the proclamation around 4 million enslaved people were freed by the end of the war. -
Second Inaugural Address
Written By: Abraham Lincoln -
American Civil War
The war brought light to some of the many racial issues in the U.S. During this time President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment was devised. After, the Confederate state was dismembered, slavery was abolished and the Reconstruction Era began where we got the 13-15th Amendments ratified. Many Civil Rights acts were passed to extend rights to emancipated slaves. -
Ratification of the 13th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery as an institution (chattel slavery) in all U.S. states and territories. Slavery and involuntary servitude were banned except as a punishment for crime. It states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Southern Horrors
Written By: Ida B. Wells
The text is about the brutality and treatment given to black Americans. How they are raped, beaten, killed, and how it is publically done yet they don’t get the treatment that their white counterparts are. How they are shown sympathy and care or how they do not face repercussions for their actions.
Speaking on how the public lynching of the past has not gone away but more so morphed. -
March on Washington
The largest human rights political rally in the United States where about 200-300,000 participants met in Washington, D.C. They protested for freedom for Black Americans and jobs. Here MLK Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the Lincoln Memorial. The march is linked to helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The bill was introduced by President Kennedy and signed into law by Johnson. It barred discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public facilities. Discrimination in the hiring process was also outlawed and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help enforce the law was established. -
Between the world and Me
Written By: Ta-Nehisi Coates -
< How three unlikely groups worked together to achieve interracial solidarity
By: Gene Demby -
The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles
Written By: Stephanie Hinnershitz PhD
About to Zoo Suit riots and beating that occurred. Sailors, soldiers, and civilians would go out to beat Mexican Americans, Black Americans, and Filipino Americans wearing the suits. How Mexican Americans were given the blame and denied help by the police. How their style became affiliated with gangs and violence, further criminalizing the people and putting them under more persecution.