B. B: Black Lives Matter (BLM)

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A: Abraham Lincoln; In 1864, Abe LIncoln thought the north would lose the civil war. He also thought he wouldn't be elected President a second time. People that were in the Republican party wanted to elect someone else to represent them, not Abe Lincoln.

B: Black Lives Matter(BLM); BLM is a movement to call and acknowledge the unique experiences against the harm of racism on blacks. It all started when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman a neighborhood watch volunteer. It has eventually got worse and worse after the deaths of more blacks from guns.

C: Civil Rights; Civil Rights was one of the biggest things for the blacks. It took place in the year 1964. It outlawed discrimination and racial segregation, but it did not work at first. There was still …show more content…
A big one was Trayvon Martin after a cop killed an ¨innocent¨ black 17 year old kid. But still to this day blacks are being killed but only 26% are killed by Police.

E: Education of Slaves; Slave children were sometimes allowed to go to some classes but almost rarely were they able to. However for the adults it was a whole nother story. The slave adults were not allowed to go to any classes and had to try to educate themselves, since many of them had never been educated in their entire life.

F: Fear; Everyday a long time ago blacks lived in their own fear. They were scared to be beaten almost everyday by their slave owners. Sometimes the owners would get in 100 licks or more on the blacks.

G: Government; The first black president is Barack Obama. Obama has served two terms and is about to finish his 2nd. Although there have been many other blacks in the government.

H: Harriet Tubman; Harriet Tubman was hope for the blacks. She saved 300 blacks in slavery in 19 trips, without losing one single person. Tubman did this frankly because she was tired of the pain of slavery so escaped and decided to bring people with
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