USA - Black & white

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USA - Black & white by Mind Map: USA - Black & white

1. Blacks

1.1. Treated like animals

1.2. They were strong.

1.2.1. They could stand the pressure

1.3. Are still suppressed today.

2. Slavery

2.1. North-states - the first with no slavery South-states - lots of slavery and segregation.

2.1.1. The north-states helped the south-states get rid of slavery.

2.2. The slaves came from the colonies and was in the beginning imported from Africa.

3. Whites oppionions

3.1. They didn't see blacks as human beings.

4. Films & songs

4.1. Mississipi burning.

4.1.1. Disturbing.

4.1.2. KKK, NAACP, Local PD - FBI, South-state vs. North-state.

4.1.2.1. NAACP - National association for the advancement for the colored people.

4.1.3. Segregation.

4.2. We shall overcome

4.2.1. Working song for the black people.

5. Civil Rights

5.1. Underground railroad

5.1.1. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

5.1.2. Harriet Tubman

5.2. Civil rights movement

5.2.1. Martin Luther King Jr.

5.2.2. Political movement against racism.

6. Persons

6.1. Harriet Tubman

6.1.1. *Harriet Tubman, after escaping she helped other on the underground rail road, and is the most known of the reel road. - The moses of the people. The recruited over 600 people to freedom, including her own family.

6.2. John Brown

6.2.1. He was a white man who help freeing slaves. He was in contact with both Fredrik Douglas and Harriet topmen. As he and some of his men were trying to free some slaves, they got in to strougle with some men. John Brown and his men were hung.

6.3. Abraham Lincoln

6.3.1. He got a lot of states rid of slavery and later segregation.

6.4. Frederick Douglass

6.4.1. He was a leader of a freedom fighting movement - he fought for black freedom.