African American History
Servitude to Slavery Indentured servants- Virginia and Maryland before 1675 – Head right system Bacon’s rebellion conflict between backcountry and tidewater gentry, -cause to revaluate indentured servants- move to slaves Beginning of slavery- tobacco
Plantations and Slave Trade Slave trade- middle passage- Brazil and Caribbean Cultural practices brought from Africa Tobacco in Chesapeake, rice in South Carolina Development of Slaves in South due to Low supply of indentured servants Spread of tobacco Colonists begin to view bondage as morally wrong Compete in slave trade Stono Rebellion- earliest slave rebellions – slaves in Charleston tried to flee to Spanish Florida
Abolition and Abolitionists Second Great Awakening American Colonization Society William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe Emancipation Proclamation African Americans at war
Reconstruction Amendments: 13, 14, 15 Sharecropping Black Codes Compromise of 1877 Slaughterhouse cases and Civil rights cases 1888 Plessy v Ferguson Booker T. Washington
Progressive Era WEB Du Bois- Social Equality, NAACP Left out of Progress Ida B Wells Rise of KKK- Birth of a Nation WWI- segregation
1920s Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey
Great Depression/New Deal Shift in Voting Eleanor Roosevelt WWII Homefront Segregated units
1945-present Dixiecrats 1948 Brown v Board Little Rock 9- Eisenhower MLK Jr. -SCLC, Letter from Birmingham Jail, non- violence Sit ins Separatists Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) Roy Wilkens- NAACP Huey Newton- Black Panthers