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Civil War & Civil Rights in the United States

Civil War & Civil Rights in the United States. What was this war?. War fought between 1861-1865 Between the North (Union) and some Southern States (Confederacy). Why was this war fought?.

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Civil War & Civil Rights in the United States

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  1. Civil War & Civil Rights in the United States

  2. What was this war? War fought between 1861-1865 Between the North (Union) and some Southern States (Confederacy)

  3. Why was this war fought? Slavery – this was used primarily in the Southern United States especially on cotton and tobacco plantations

  4. What did slavery look like? Lincoln 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_PfTl63qQQ

  5. I have seen slave mothers fall over in a dead faint when their children were sold away from them. The mothers would have to hand down their children and when they fell over in a faint men would pick the poor women up and carry them away just as if they were dogs. Those mothers loved their little children just the same as white mothers love their little babies, and some of them were never happy again and some went insane as did my old mother when her children were sold away from her.” Samuel Hall, Iredell County, N.C.

  6. "She also gave me four or five onions…she said negro hunters came along there every two or three hours in the day; and I learned for the first time how to decoy the blood hounds, for she told me whenever I heard the baying of hounds on my trail, to rub the onions on the bottoms of my feet and run, and after running a certain distance to stop and apply the onions again, then when I came to a large bushy tree, to rub the trunk as high up as I could reach, then climb the tree…" "I had not gone far when an opportunity presented itself to test the efficacy of the onions, for about nine o'clock that day I heard the baying of the blood hounds in the distance behind me. I rubbed the onions on my feet as directed, and ran as fast as I could the distance of half a mile, when I repeated the application. I continued this process for about one mile and a half, going across the fields and through the woods, dodging the roads and farms where people were at work. I came to a thickly branched out tree in the woods. I rubbed onions on the trunk and climbed the tree. I could tell when the hounds came to the place where I first put the onions on my feet, because they would retrace their steps, until finally their voices died away, and I heard them no more that day." William H. Robinson, Wilmington, N.C.

  7. Slavery ended? In 1865 the 15th amendment outlaws slavery But was it really over?

  8. Reconstruction & Jim Crow What do you think happened to all the slaves that were suddenly free? Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War in which southern states were going through a time of rebuilding Jim Crow – reduced the rights of freed slaves – ‘separate but equal’

  9. Some of the laws Buses. All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races (Alabama). Teaching. Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined... (Oklahoma).

  10. Civil Rights Movement Effort to abolish the unfair treatment of African Americans in the United States between 1854-1868 Wanted to integrate themselves into society without fear of retaliation. This included attended mixed schools, being able to vote and not living in fear of violence.

  11. What did people do? Freedom Riders - 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FranrEa8vg

  12. Who were leaders? Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) is the most well known leader however there were many others. His Famous “I have a dream” speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8

  13. I have a dream speech “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.”

  14. What happened? Civil Rights Act of 1964 - outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. Voting Rights Act of 1865 – outlawed discriminatory voting practices particularly against African Americans.

  15. Has it gotten any better? Trayvon Martin (2012) shot by a man who was following him claiming he was up to no good – there are claims that this man was heard uttering racial slurs on a 911 call James Byrd Jr. (1998) – took a ride from three white men who took him to a remote location before beating him, tying him to the back of his truck and dragging him through town.

  16. What can we do? Promote acceptance

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