Homeschool . 歷史 . Movements for Rights

 ~ 10/26/2021 ~

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～ 以下資料節錄自《https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/start-here-apah/brief-histories-apah/a/common-questions-about-dates》～

Why 2012 is in the 21st Century

We live in the 21st Century, that is, the 2000s. Similarly when we say "20th Century," we are referring to the 1900s. All this because, according to the calendar we use, the 1st Century included the years 1-100 (there was no year zero), and the 2nd Century, the years 101-200. Similarly, when we say 2nd Century B.C.E. we are referring to the years 200-101 B.C.E. Within our calendar, we also have a tendency to find portentous meaning in the millennial years, that is, in the years 1000 and more recently, 2000.

Civil Rights — the rights of a citizens including the right to vote and protection under the law

Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery

Fourteenth Amendment made all African Americans citizens

1869  — Fifteenth Amendment. It gave African American men the right to vote, but not women

1920 - Nineteenth Amendment was passed to give women the right to vote

Jim Crow Laws — enforced segregation in the South

1963 > 200,000 people protest in Washington D.C.

1964 Civil Rights Act was passed

1965 Voting Rights Act was passed. The act made it against the law to have a voting tax.

Frederick Douglass. He escaped from slavery and went on to help completely abolish it. In 1841, he spoke at an antislavery convention in Massachusetts. Totally against the norm. A lot of slaves didn’t even know how to read or write because the slave owners didn’t allow it. It was so important that he was seen and heard.

Sojourner Truth escaped slavery too, but with her baby daughter. I would have been so scared. But she was a strong Abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Her most famous speech was about racial inequality and was called: Ain’t I a Woman? If you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s really honest and moving.

Harriet Tubman. She also escaped from slavery and fled to Philadelphia in 1849. Then she proceeded to make around 19 journeys back to the South to help over 300 enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad. I can’t even imagine how risky that must’ve been. Slavery wasn’t even abolished yet. A lot of other people dedicated their lives to freeing the slaves.