Since the inception of America, African Americans have faced a long and tumultuous journey in the land of the free. From slavery to segregation, discrimination…
From Drums to Broadway: The History of African American Entertainment
Entertainment has always been an essential part of human culture, providing a form of escapism from the struggles of daily life. African Americans have played…
The police and the police again
It is the problem of police violence that has been the cause of the riots of the last few years. In 2001 in Cincinnati, authorities were forced to declare a curfew – riots began when a black 19-year-old delinquent
The first slaves from Africa
In 1619, the first black slaves were brought to what is now the United States. Over the next 50 years, they supplanted the white indentured servants who left a very short trace in history.
The Bus and Martin Luther King
Since the mid-1950s, the struggle for equal rights between whites and blacks has been a mass phenomenon. In 1955, Rosa Parks, 42, in Montgomery, Alabama,
New Life
Upon arrival in America, slaves were fed and treated to make them “marketable” and then put on the market. Slave prices depended on market conditions.
The Struggle for Rights.
During the XVIII century there were at least 150 slave revolts. Almost every plantation had its own storehouse of weapons and maintained security detachments in case of danger.
Slavery and Segregation
In April 1861 a civil war broke out in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln, who came to power, started it against the 11 rebellious southern states that did not recognize him and declared secession from the United States.
Colonization of America
Beginning in the fifteenth century, the territory of the present-day United States of America was actually owned by Europe.
Bandits and human rights activists
In March 1991, Los Angeles resident Rodney King was driving his car while intoxicated. He exceeded the speed limit, the police officers noticed and ordered him to stop.