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Zusammenfassung Abiturlernzettel African American Englisch 2022

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Dieses Dokument enthält detaillierte Zusammenfassungen bezüglich African American history: - African Americans in the US today - Timeline -Slavery-historical overview -Civil war -Reconstruction period -Segregation

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African Americans in the US to day




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African Americans =
one of the Larsest ethnic minor : Lies
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in the US ( 14% of
population )

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Most African Americans live in the South and in the Largest Cities ,


such as New York , Chicago ,
Detroit and
Philadelphia
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true equality has not been reachedyet

the racial divide still exists in society + Wealth between
gap
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gap

White and African American families + educational
gap

↳ ahuse humber of African American families are dependant on federal /

fovernment Welfare Programmes → Medicaid for example =




Social healthcare Programme for Americans with limited resources



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Unemployment =
big issue in the Black Community

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Since the Civil Rights Movement there have been attempts to address the
,




discrimi nation of Black people in employment and education by introducing

Policies that fauour racial minor :-(ies ( affirmative action)


hart to breakout
" "

Circle of poverty ( Armut)
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racial Profiling =
black people are more like , to be accused for a Crime because of their
Skin Colour


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African Americans are more impacted by police violence than people from other ethnie grcyps


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Black Lines Matter movement : >
fights against pdice brutality and systematic racism




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Spring 2020 = George Floyd = Killed by a policen an
who Lindt on his heck



↳ Protests →
calling for justice and equality

afight that has to legacy
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It is continuo because the of Slavery and the

'

Jim Crow ( did just because
'

aus hat Sudden ly vanish acts here Pass ed or
,



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a Person of Colour was alected for Predency -



Barack Obama President of the US⇐ 8)

, Timeline



1619 =
First African slaves brought to Jamestown , Virginia

1807 =
President Jefferson Signs Legislativ that

Oficial } ends transatlantic staue trade

around 1850 =
Hey day of Underground Railroad to help slaves


escape to freedom , especial , in response to Fugitive

staue Act


1861-1865 =
Civil war between Yankees ( North) and Confederate (South) ,




ending in Victors for the free ( anti -




Slavery )

northern States

1863 =
President Lin con 's
Emancipation Proclamation

1865-1877 = Reconstruction Peiod

1865 =
13th Amendment : abolition of slavery


1865 -



1560s = Phase of Segregation and
"
Jim Crow Lans
"
in Southern States


1868 =
14th Amendment : US citizenship for all f- armer slaves


1870 = 15th Amendment :
right to vote for African Americans

1875 = Civil Rights Act :
equal rights for African Americans in different

aspects of Public life

1896 =
Plessy vs. Ferguson :
Segregation Consolidated
"

trash but facilities
"
separate equal

1931-1935 = (ase of the Scotts boro Boys culminating in Norris vs. Alabama

( 1935 ) rating against all -
White juries

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