122.1 Rosa Parks and The Freedom Movement (from Slavery to Civil Rights)
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The History of Slavery in the United States
In public school, we start learning about the long and complex history of race relations between Caucasians or specifically white Americans and black Americans as early as fourth grade. Black people were taken from Africa to the United States to work as slaves in the early 17th and 18th centuries. Many of the enslaved families were brought to the deep south where they worked long hard hours on cotton, sugar, corn, and tobacco plantations. Former slave owners pushed for laws that would keep blacks and whites separated called Jim Crow laws.
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