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to keep blacks under their control
• socially ,they not only segregated blacks in all public places ( known as “the Jim Crow laws”) , but also terrified blacks by organizing
The Number of Population
• Before 2000,Aferican Americans has alsways been regarded as the largest minority group • 39.9 million Aferican Americans,representing about 12.9%of the total population • this somehow helps them figure prominently in the present-day American political, social,economic,and cultural life
Human Resources
Ethnic Minorities in America liuzhen
Ethnic Minorities
• • • • Aferican Americans Latinos/Hispanics Asian Americans Native Americans
Aferican Americans
all public schools,and later approved measures to force integration • In the late 1960s and 1970s.Black political figures have now taken on national prominence and black voters have been courted by all serious politicians • Many African Americans are now mayors of major cities and members of Congress.
the Civil Rights Movement
• Beginning with Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 , and March on Washington in 1963 , black Americans engaged themselves in on battle after another across the country.
• In response to the iron-fisted approach of
white Southerners , black slaves waged uprisings and rebellions across the South to demonstrate their unquenchable will for freedom and self-autonomy. War that the whole slave issue was finally brought to an end.
• It was not until the conclusion of the Civil
Aferican Americans
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The Number of Population Notorious Slave Trade Jobs before Civil Rights Movements Up From Slavery Struggle for Civil Rights A Dream to be Realized
• Due to the invention of the cotton gin in 1793
--injected fresh life into slavery,making it possible for plantation owners to increase their profits if they could get more slaves to keep their cotton gins in full operation • Meanwhile,as slavery became part and parcel of southern way of life and got embedded in its social structure,southern whites tightened their control over black slaves and exploited them to the maximum degree posssible
• In the late 1960s , Malcolm X's advocacy of violence
Such efforts have brought about sustained success for African Americans.
• In 1969,the supreme court ordered desegregation of
such violent groups as Ku Klux Klan.
blacks responded in different ways.
• Some went around their black folks to urge them to
get united to fight for political rights and social equality.
Notoriouos Slave Trade
• severe shortage of labor • They were brought to "the new word"in the early 1600s against their will • By the time of American Revolution,black slaves accounted for about 20% of the total population of the colonies
• In the first half of the 1960s , the Civil Rights
Movement was largely dominated by Martin Luther King's ideology , and blacks were mainly using nonviolent action to crash “the wall of segregation ” . for violence gained ground in the Civil Rights Movement ; particularly among urban black youth.
search of a better life.
• Others , went to the Upper South or the North in • In the latter part of the 19th century , as
industrialization gradually made itself felt in the South , more and more blacks left home in large numbers and migrated to urban areas in the South , the North , and the West.
Aferican Americans
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The Number of Population Notorious Slave Trade Jobs before Civil Rights Movements Up From Slavery Struggle for Civil Rights A Dream to be Realized
Out of Africa ang Thrown into Slavery
• By the late 1700s---some people claimed that
slavery was on its way to natural death. • During and after the American Revolution--northern states began banning slavery , and southern states started passing laws to ameliorate the harsh treatment of slaves. • However , as slavery was such a profitable economic institution in the South , white Southerners became reluctant to abolish slavery. • Black Codes(黑奴法典)
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The Number of Population Notorious Slave Trade Out of Africa ang Thrown into Slavery Up From Slavery Struggle for Civil Rights A Dream to be Realized
Aferican Americans
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The Number of Population Notorious Slave Trade Out of Africa ang Thrown into Slavery Up From Slavery Struggle for Civil Rights A Dream to be Realized
Out of Africa ang Thrown into Slavery
• Used as agricultural labor force in the South,growing cotton • in the north,few slaves were used there
• So , for a long time in American history , slavery had been a regional issue.
Struggle for Civil Rights
• “Black problems”---poverty , unemployment , overcrowded housing , violence and crime . • In 1954 , the United States Supreme Court declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. • Inspired by this decision , black Americans decided to try to end racial segregation and racial discrimination in all areas of American life
Up from Slavery
• Although the Civil War shattered the chains
on slaves , it by no means brought freedom and equality to the freed slaves.
• white southerners devised a variety of ways