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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around 1818. No one knows when his actual birthday was, but Douglass always celebrated it on February 14th. He worked on a plantation farm until he was sent to Baltimore where his new owners taught him how to read and write.
After he learned how to read he became more interested in anti slavery. He also wrote a lot of literature such as "The Columbian Orator" and "The Liberator". Douglass shared his newfound knowledge with other slaves -
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Which meant that he helped teach slaves on the plantation to read and write. They often read weekly church testiments, and other different kinds of literature. His lessons were so popular that more than 40 slaves attented each time. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and a group of 16 other people went through the town and killed 60 men, women, and children just because they owned slaves. Turner thought that he was doing what was right and that the slave owners got what was coming to them. He would have killed more slave owners if he hadn't have been caught. He had an army of over 40 slaves so they were able to do a lot of damage if they really wanted to. -
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Nat Turner was caught on October 30th and he gave his "confession" on November 5th. He was eventually hanged and skinned because he killed 55 people. There were also 200 people that were killed by white mobs in a form of revenge for what Nat Turner did. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave that was owned by an army doctor which means that they lived in a few different free states like Illinois and Wisconsin. After Scott's owner passed away he thought that he should be free since he was living in a free state. However Dr. Emerson's wife believed that Scott now belonged to her since her husband passed. Scott took this argument to court and it surprisingly made it all the way to the US Supreme Court. One of the first slavery trials to make it to the -
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Supreme Court. Even though the Supreme Court consisted of a mostly southern jury, Scott still thought that he had a pretty good chance of winning. The jury did say that he was not free because he wasn't a citizen under the US Constitution. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown was born in 1800 and he became interested in the abolitionist movement in 1835. In the summer of 1859 he trained 22 men, including his three sons, in military maneuvers. On the night of October 16, Brown and his army marched into Harper's Ferry, capturing several watchmen and prisoners. No one realized that Brown had taken control of the building until the next morning. Once they did find out they vlocked out Brown's escape routes and he was trapped inside the building. -
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They stormed the engine house and captured Brown and everyone else that Brown had already captured. They arrested Brown and took him to court so he could be tried for treason. Brown and the rest of his group were tried and then hanged on December 2nd. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
From December 1, 1955 to December 20, 1956 African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama due to segregated seating. Four days before the strike began a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person. She was arrested and fined for $200 but she refused to pay the fine because she didn't think that it was fair that she had to pay it. While all of this was going on the rest of the black people in the city of Montgomery refused to use their bus system -
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As a form of transportation. They walked everywhere instead. Because of this the bus system was losing money and eventually it shut down for a while. Once the strike ended the government ordered that they integrate their bus system so it is fair for everyone who rides. -
The Greensboro St-ins
The first Greensboro Sit-In happened on Februrary 1, 1960. It started when four black college students refused to gove up their seats at a restaurant, even though they weren't allowed to be sitting there in the first place. Many of the protestors were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, or disturbing the peace. Their actions made an immediate and lasting impact which forced a lot of restaurants to change their segregation policies. -
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These sit-ins spread to a lot of different places in the south and a lot of white people were getting involved too. Which meant that even though they were being attacked and threatened, they weren't allowed to respond because it meant that they would get in trouble too. These events were also involved in the Birmingham Campaign except they were attacked way more in Birmingham than they were in Greensboro. -
The Birmingham Campaign
The Birmingham Campaign was one of the most influential campaigns of The Civil Rights Movement. This helped lead to sit-ins, marches, boycotts, etc. Over the course of a few months those peaceful demonstrations were met with violent attacks using high pressure hoses and police dogs on men, women, and children. The Birmingham Campaign ended with a victory because local officials agreed to remove "White Only" and "Black Only " signs from restrooms and drinking fountains in the Birmingham area. -
March On Washington
On August 28, 1963 over 20,000 people gathered in Washington D.C. for a political rally for jobs and freedom. The March On Washington was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges that African Americans had to go through. This event did happen more than once but this occasion is known as one of the most popular ones because it is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his " I Have A Dream Speech." -
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These events were really popular and they always had an audience of around 20,000. People of all different races came to help support and it eventually helped with slavery getting abolished. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civl Rights Act of 1964 ended all forms of segregation in public places, and employmenty discrimination. It was first proposed by John F. Kennedy. It survived strong opposition from the southern members of Congressand was then signed into law by one of Kennedy's successors. Eventually Congress expanded the act and passed legislation aimed at bringing equality to African Americans as well. -
ISIS Putting Price Tags On Children
ISIS has been putting price tags on children in Iraq and they have been selling them as slaves. They are taking kids as young as 8 years old and they are training them to be soldiers. They are using little girls as sex slaves, and they are using kids who are mentally challenged as suicide bombers.
They are also doing things like raping them, beheading them, rucifying them, and burying them alive. The government is trying to stop this from happening by passing some laws but no one is sure -
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If these laws are going to be effective or not because they ahve already tried to pass some laws to protect the children, but no one really obeyed those laws.
