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  2. Timeline of the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    During the early years of the Miss America pageant, under the directorship of Lenora Slaughter, it became racially segregated via rule number seven that stated: "contestants must be of good health and of the white race.” [2] [3] Rule number seven was abolished in 1950.

  3. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...

  4. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    Timeline; Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968 ...

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    The history of slavery in the United States has always been a major research topic among white scholars, but until the 1950s, they generally focused on the political and constitutional themes of slavery which were debated over by white politicians; they did not study the lives of the enslaved black people.

  6. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    This timeline shows abolition laws or actions listed chronologically. It also covers the abolition of serfdom. Although slavery of non-prisoners is technically illegal in all countries today, the practice continues in many locations around the world, primarily in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, often with government support. [1]

  7. Hulu's 'The 1619 Project' examines the impact of slavery on ...

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    In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...

  8. 25 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't ... - AOL

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    Research has extensively documented the differences between the Black and white experience in the US, from wealth and education to incarceration.

  9. York County’s Black experience: From slavery to a history ...

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    And the second part of that is that slavery in York County and elsewhere carried with it patent racism. The people enslaved in America in the late 1700s were Black. Even white indentured servants ...