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Timeline of Slavery and Racism - Coggle Diagram
Timeline of Slavery and Racism
~1619
17-18th century
1804
1811
1830-60
1861-65
1929-1933
1933-1955
1955-1961
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Rosa Parks: A black woman who refused to let her seat to a white person on a bus, and was arrested on december 1st 1955.
Emmett Till: A black boy accused of offending a white woman and murdered at age 14
Scottsboro boys: 9 young black teenagers accused of raping 2 white woman, and sentenced to death. This shows the illegal trial of black people in the early 20th century.
The Great Depression, 1929-1933: African countries ruled by europeans had a huge economic loss, and most importantly African Americans became unemployed, suffering the highest unemployment rate.
Segregation Laws: Black and white people had to use different facilities, and were treated unequally.
American Civil War: Union vs confederates, slavery gets abolished in most parts
Union: anti slavery vs pro-slaver Confederates
Confederates: pro-slavery
The Union won the war, leading to most states being abolished of slavery. Slavery is officially abolished, though racism towards black people would exist until today.
Lincoln announces the end of slavery on their side, 1862
Anti-slavery (abolitionist movements) lead by people such as Frederick Douglass ,William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southern slave rebels
Slavery is abolished in the northern states
An estimated 6-7 million people enslaved
Slaves spread out across America, working on tobacco, rice and indigo farms
Economic crisis in southern USA, slavery growth stops
Slavery not used widely in the North
Africans were shipped to Europe and sold in America as slaves