The first African slaves brought to the English colonies in America arrived in the early 17th century.

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• The first African slaves brought to the English
  colonies in America arrived in the early 17th
  century.

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Slaves Picking Cotton

• Cotton was the most important crop in the south
  before the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 )

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ABOLITIONISTS

• SOJOURNER TRUTH- First Black woman to crusade for
  Abolition of slavery
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Abolished Slavery in 1865

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JIM CROW LAWS

• The 1880s witnessed a profusion of segregationist
  legislation, separating blacks and whites.
• The system of Southern segregation was often
  called the Jim Crow system.

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JIM CROW LAWS

• Jim Crow laws prohibited intermarriage,
  segregated the schools, and separated the races
  in buses, trains and restaurants.

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JIM CROW LAWS
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JIM CROW LAWS

• Signs were set up to separate facilities saying
  White and Coloured appearing on parks,
  toilets, waiting rooms, theatres and water
  fountains.

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KU KLUX KLAN
The Ku Klux Klan was a white underground
terrorist group. They dressed in white to stress
their beliefs that whites were superior to blacks.
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KU KLUX KLAN
They created a wave of terror which included
threats, violence bullying, lynching, setting
fire to buildings and murder among blacks and
those who tried to help them.
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JIM CROW LAWS

• Whites were to sit at front of the bus and fill
  seats towards the rear. Blacks were to sit in the
  back of the bus and fill seats towards the front.
  If the bus was so crowded that a white person had
  to stand, a black bus rider was required to give
  up his seat to the white person.

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Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a
city bus to a white man. December 1, 1955 in
Montgomery.What happened?

• She was arrested.

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MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• The civil right movement started.
• Reverend Martin Luther King was the leader.
• Blacks started a bus boycott to desegregate buses.

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BUS BOYCOTT
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.

• A national symbol of the new black resistance to
  segregation laws.
• Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Organized many non-violent racial protests
• He delivered his most famous speech I have a
  dream in 1963
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned racial
  discrimination in public places
• Voting Rights Act of 1965 which gave the U.S
  Government the right to register blacks to vote
  in southern states.

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Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
John F. Kennedy
Sojourner Truth
Nelson Mandela
Ella Baker