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A Trip to the Capital
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- During the 1960's many Blacks, along with White allies, began protesting for their rights. This was called the Civil Rights Movement. They marched and protested by sitting in cafes and buses where they were not allowed to sit. The remarkable thing is that they made sure that all of their protests were peaceful. They never used violence. White people, on the other hand, screamed at them, attacked them, put their dogs on them, and put them in jail.
- The leader of these protests was a man named Martin Luther King Jr. Watch the video to find out more about this courageous leader.
- Most slaves lived in the Southern United States, where they worked on large plantations taking care of crops while the people who owned the land got rich on their labor. A slaveowner could do whatever he wanted to his slaves, including hurting them or killing them. Families were often separated when a slaveowner sold away a mother's children.
- Some black people did manage to run away and escape to the Northern United States, where they could be free. There were not very many free blacks, however, and they still faced racism in the North.
- The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the South to determine if the country would continue to have slaves. The North won, and all the slaves were freed.
- Whites Only, no Colored
- But just because they had been officially freed does not mean that Blacks were treated fairly by society. In the South, what were known as "Jim Crow" laws prevented Blacks from voting, getting certain jobs, or getting a good education. Blacks and Whites were separated, or segregated. Blacks had their own schools, they couldn't use the same restrooms as white people, and they couldn't even drink from the same water fountain as Whites!
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