African American History
The Great Depression (1929 - 1930s)
Civil War + Slavery
Jim Crow Laws + Segregation
Rosa Parks
The Story of Emmet Till
The Scottsboro Boys (1931)
Lives of white vs. black Southerners in the 1930’s
Harper Lee - Is this a memoir?
Brown vs. Board of Education Segregation
Born on Feb 4, 1913, died on Oct 24, 2005, Rosa Parks was an american activist who stood up to Racism and unequal racial segregation.
The Great Depression started in 1929 and ended in late 1930s. International trade fell by more than 50 percent, and it was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century
1954, this was a case in the supreme court
People unanimously agreed that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
In 1896, the supreme court announced that the segregation of black and white facilities were allowed as long as they were all equal. This was called separate but equal .
Her bravery led to world wide efforts to put an end to racial segregation.
Best known for her role in Montgomery bus boycott, where she refused to give up her seat for a white man.
Born on July 25th, 1941, died on August 28, 1955
After offending a white woman in her family grocery store, the boy was captured by the woman's husband and mutilated and beaten before he was shot in the head.
His body was thrown into the river and only to be retrieved three days later. His mother insisted on a public funeral so civilians could see racism demonstrated.
Nine black boys falsely accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro Alabama.
By the early 1930s, with the nation mired in the Great Depression, many unemployed Americans would try and hitch rides aboard freight trains to move around the country searching for work.
On March 25, 1931, police arrested nine black youths, ranging in age from 13 to 19, on a minor charge. But when deputies questioned two white women, they accused the boys of raping them while onboard the train.
The civil war in the united states started in 1861, after a long time of tension between northern and southern america over slavery, state rights, and western expansion.
In the mid 19th century, America was developing very quickly. But during it's development, the economical differences between the northern and southern parts of the country increased.
Slavery was one of the reasons why the civil war started. Slavery is in which one human being is owned by another. They are people that are called literally property, or movable property, because they can be sold, or bought.
"As long I'm alive, any book written about me will be a falsehood."
Because of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, she is famous all around the world. She outlined and brought America's real social state to life.
Marja Mills's new book about Harper Lee is a chronicle of her friendship with the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird and her older sister. This story caused Harper Lee to state that:
The problems of the Great Depression affected virtually every group of Americans. No group was harder hit than African Americans, however.
By 1932, approximately half of black Americans were out of work.
African-American unemployment rates doubled or tripled those of whites.
If one white man was not working, all black men of that place were to be unemployed immediately.
In Atlanta, nearly 70 percent of black workers were jobless in 1934. In cities across the North, approximately 25 percent of white workers were unemployed in 1932, while the jobless rates among African Americans topped 50 percent in Chicago and Pittsburgh and 60 percent in Philadelphia and Detroit.
Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
Racial segregation is the separation of black and white people in public facilities such as schools, hospitals, busses, toilets, etc.
One saying is: Separate but Equal. The law states that black and white people are to use different facilities, but the facilities were to be equal.
But everyone knows that every single facility was different. White ones were clean, black ones were not. White ones were tidy, black ones were not. White kids had better education, but black kids did not. Etc.
During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of African-American workers who fell into debt joined the Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North.
According to Greenberg, by 1940 1.75 million African Americans had moved from the South to cities in the North and West.