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A history of racism in the USA - Coggle Diagram
A history of racism in the USA
Slavery in the US
Started in the early 17th century
people were "kidnapped" from Africa and brought over to the US to pick cotton and tobacco in the fields
The KuKlux Klan
far-right group advocating white supremacy
use physical assaults and murder
affiliated with antisemitism, neo-nazism, anti-LGBTQ groups
wear white robes and hoods too hide their ID
The LA riots
Causes: 4 officers acquitted despite beating Rodney King
Killing of Latasha Harlins
April to May 1992
Escalating tensions between black and white people
63 people killed
2383 injured
1200 arrested
Brown v. Board
of Education
1954: A law declares that segregation in schools is not constitutional
The BLM movement
When : started in 2013
Who : created by Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors and Opal Domety
Why : police shot Jacob Blake in the back (7 times)
What : to protest police violence / political and social movement.
In 2020, 123 black people were killed by police
(gained momentum with george floyd's death)
Police brutality / George Floyd
Police brutality
unjustified and unfair
more powerful
violent
George Floyd
died following his arrest
brutalized for 8'46
his murderer was arrested only 3 days later
Famous figures
Barack Obama
First Black president of the United States of America from the 20th of January 2009 to the 20th January 2017.
Symbol for African American people.
He fought all his life for black people's rights
Martin Luther King
He became an example of nonviolent struggle around the world and was supported by president Kennedy in 1961
He launched the bus boycott against the injustice of "White for Black".
1955 : became the spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement at the head of the Rosa Parks support committee.
He was sent to Montgomery were segregation was rampant
Rosa Parks
American activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
Montgomery bus boycott. Mother of the freedom movement.
1955 : she refused to let her seat to a white passenger in a bus, she violated Alabama segregation laws
The Civil Rights
Movement
1954 - 1968
A struggle by African Americans to end racial discrimination, segregation, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow laws, socioeconomic inequality.
Goals : racial equality, end of segregation.
Jim Crow Laws and the
Civil Rights Act of 1964
national and local laws from 1877 to 1964
enforces segregations in public areas and private life
prevents social interacctions between black and white people
Examples: in trains, different cars for black and white people