What was this war War fought between 18611865 Between the North Union and some Southern States Confederacy Why was this war fought Slavery this was used primarily in the Southern United States especially on cotton and tobacco plantations ID: 464199
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Civil War & Civil Rights in the United StatesSlide2
What was this war?
War fought between 1861-1865
Between the North (Union) and some Southern States (Confederacy)Slide3
Why was this war fought?
Slavery – this was used primarily in the Southern United States especially on cotton and tobacco plantationsSlide4
What did slavery look like?
Lincoln 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_PfTl63qQQSlide5
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. Slide6
"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.Slide7
Slavery ended?
In 1865 the 15
th
amendment outlaws slavery
But was it really over?Slide8
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’Slide9Slide10
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).Slide11
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.Slide12
What did people do?
Freedom Riders - 1961
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FranrEa8vgSlide13
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=V57lotnKGF8Slide14
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.”Slide15
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.Slide16
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.Slide17
What can we do?
Promote acceptance