Civil Rights Updates
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Discrimination and the thoughts behind it
In the 1800's discrimination was a big deal, for instance, the blacks would be treated poorly as the whites were treated with high end things. the whites also tended to have better schools in nice buildings, but the blacks would just learn in a shack and would not have all the learning resources the whites had.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was a poet civil rights movement but when she was younger she didn't have it all great when she was 8 she was raped by he mom's boyfriend so she want to her grandmother's house with her brother thats when she was a young adult that she go into thing so she got jobs that were a fry cook,nightclub dancer and a porformer
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was born February 4 1913, in Tuskegee,AL.She had a brother named, Sylverter McCauley.She was in The time period where black race was treated a ¨second-class¨, so on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks wouldn´t give up her seat for a white person, of course it was against the law, so she did have too pay the consequences, but after all that stuff happened even more people admired, Rosa Parks for her Bravery.
Booker T
Booker T washington was a man who gave african americans education. He himself was born to a mother that was a slave and a father who was white that he never got to know. When he wanted to get an education, He left home.
Segregation in the 1800's
Segregation was also a big impact on many states in the 1800's. Many people tried to stop it such as James hood Who was the first african american to go to a university. Everywhere you would look segregation was there and it definitely was a big deal in the 1800's.
The end of Slavery
the civil war was on the idea of slavery,as well as trade,tariffs,and states rights. Many people such as Harriet Tubman helped to end slavery by using the underground railroad to get to free states. Eventually after many years, slavery was put to an end in 1865
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