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Black People History
Before 1900
This continued before the end of the Civil war in 1865. A major factor of slavery was due to the high demand in the cotton-growing industry.
The northern states started industrializing in the 19th century, and the need for slaves reduced. They wanted the slave policy to be abolished in America. However, the south disagreed. This triggered the renowned civil war, which was fought between the north and the south over whether African Americans should be enslaved.
After the Civil war, 4 million African Americans were freed. However, they were still treated unfairly by most Americans. Groups like the Ku Klux klan tried to harass them with violence.
Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million people from Africa where kidnapped to become slaves for the Americans. After the long two month journey from Africa to America, only 10.7 million slaves survived.
Famous anti-black actions included the Jim Crow laws. One of them was that White and Black people had to go to separate schools. They also limited a lot of jobs and rights.
After 1900
More than 500 years after America was formed, in 2020, equality is still yet to come. People are going on protest marches known as "Black Lives Matter" in order to stop the police violence on African Americans. This was influenced by George Floyd and other black people who were killed by white police.
In the 1950s, Martin Luther King helped give more civil rights to African Americans. By now, they are almost equal to the white Americans. However, in 1968 he was assassinated.
In World war two, a lot of African Americans served for the USA and contributed a lot to the victory of the war. However, they weren't respected.
Emmet Till, a 14-year old Afircan-American boy was lynched in Mississippi, 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family grocery store.
Black Lives Matter
An organisation that started in 2013 to encourage equality for Black people(mainly in America), that also fights against violence from the American police towards black people.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a black woman who was against racism and wanted to sit at the front of a bus, a place where black people weren't allowed to sit, and was treated terribly and arrested.
George Floyd
George Floyd was a 46 year old black man who was murdered by the American police by a police kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes. He kept saying that he couldn't breath but the police didn't move.
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