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INTRODUCTIO
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02.
HISTORY

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03.

04.

TIMELINE

CONCLUSION

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01
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INTRODUCTIO
N
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WHOA
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INTRODUCTION
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entire Solar System

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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW ABOUT
THEIR
HISTORY?
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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
STUDIES

AFRICAN HISTORY
Mercury is the closest planet
to the Sun and the smallest
one

AMERICAN
HISTORY
Venus has
a beautiful name,
but its atmosphere is
poisonous

02.

HISTORY
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THREE IMPORTANT FACTS OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

SLAVERY
Venus is the second
planet from the Sun

SEGREGATIO
Despite N
being red,
Mars is a very cold
place

CIVIL RIGHTS
Mercury is the closest
planet to the Sun

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A PICTURE
IS WORTH
A
THOUSAN
D WORDS

AWESOME
WORDS

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INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICANS
MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
Venus is the second

MOHAMMAD ALI

BARACK OBAMA

THURGOOD
MARSHALL

planet from the Sun

Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the Solar
System

Despite being red, Mars
is a cold place

Saturn is composed of
hydrogen and helium

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IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURES
VENUS

MERCURY

MARS

Venus is the second
planet from the Sun

Mercury is the
closest planet to the
Sun

Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place

JUPITER

SATURN

NEPTUNE

It's the biggest
planet in the Solar
System

Saturn is composed
of hydrogen and
helium

Neptune is the
farthest planet from
the Sun

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CONCEPT
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INCREASE IN SLAVERY BETWEEN
1625 AND 1775
Despite being
red, Mars is
actually a cold
place
Neptune is the
farthest planet
from the Sun

16
50

Jupiter is the
biggest planet
in the Solar
System

17
59

17
10

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PERCENTAGES

95%

55%

80%

JUPITER

VENUS

SATURN

It's the biggest planet
in the Solar System

Venus is the second
planet from the Sun

Saturn is the ringed
planet and a gas
giant

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SLAVE POPULATION IN AMERICA IN
1785
BLACK
Mars is 9%
KIDS

actually a very
cold place

BLACK
Mercury
is the
WOMEN
smallest
planet

30
%

61
%

BLACK
Venus has a
MEN
beautiful
name

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THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
COUNTRY
OF ORIGIN

Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place

SLAVER
COUNTRIES
Neptune is the

farthest planet from
the Sun

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03.

TIMELIN
E

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16th CENTENARY BLACK HISTORY
Massachusetts
legalize slavery by
law

Slave rebellion took
place in Gloucester
County

First resolution
against slavery,
Pennsylvania

1641

1663

1668

1619

First blacks to settle
as involuntary
laborers

1662

Virginia declares
African women
maids for life

1664

Prohibits the
marriage of white
with black

17th CENTENARY BLACK HISTORY
First riot among
slaves led by a slave
named Cato

Jean Baptiste P.
DuSable first resident
of Chicago

Congress passed
the first Fugitive
Slave Law

1739

1772

1793

1712

Execution of 21
African Americans
in New York

1770

Boston, Crispus
Attucks, a runaway
slave, dies

1775

Revolutionary War in
Lexington and
Concord

18th CENTENARY BLACK HISTORY
General A.Jackson
ends the First
Seminole War

Supreme Court frees
the slaves from the
“Amistad”

Approves separate
but equal public for
blacks

1818

1839

1896

1804

Ohio, "black laws"
against the rights of
free blacks

1829

First National
Convention met in
Philadelphia

1865

Passage of the
Thirteenth
Amendment

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4,498,
300

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4,000,000
slaves deported to America by Portuguese
colonies

2,500,000
386,000
km
slaves deported to America by Spanish colonies

slaves deported to America by British colonies

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SLAVERY AND LIBERTY
AMERICAN SLAVERY

SEGREGATI LIBER
ON
TY

246 years

1619

1700

86 years

1800

1865

1900

today

1954

2000

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AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PHYSICS
1878
Edward

1919

Bouchet.
First African
American to
earn a PhD in
Science

1973
Shirley A.

Elmer Imes.
First published
research of a
Black physicist

1918

Elmer S. Imes.
Second African
American to
earn a PhD in
Physics

Jackson.
2nd African
American
woman to get
PhD in Physics

1972
Willie Hobbs

Moore
1st African
American
woman to get a
PhD in Physics

BLACK CHEMISTS WHO MADE A
DIFFERENCE

GEORGE W.
Developed
CARVER
hundreds of
products using
the “slowly”
peanuts

1865-1943

1884-1966

ELMO
BRADY

First Afro American
to receive a PhD in
chemistry in USA

PERCY L.
JULIAN
He
invented

physostigmine and
synthesized
cortisone

1899-1975

1956 -

MAE
JEMISON
She
was the first
Afro American
woman to travel
into space

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