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Obama started rising to fame after calling out Bill Cosby. He eventually ran for president and won. So many people tried to tear him and his whole family down by coming after their marriage, speeches, and their bodies. But more police brutally started happening and 3 ladies founded the #BLM movement as a response and since it was women it started #SHN and #MeToo. The rest is acknowledgment.

Murry and Herrnstein banned together groups of republicans to start an anti-welfare bill. It started republicans and democrats getting tougher and stuff and a group got Angela Davis fired again. In 1995 the million man march happened to defend a falsely accused inmate on death row.

There was a bombing of a church that killed four girls in 1963. Anglea Davis lived in Alabama and her mother was Carole's teacher in the first grade. JFK started working on a bill for black rights but since he was killed Lyndon Johnson passed it. In the north, they were dealing with police brutality and riots and the south was surviving the KKK. Malcolm X started speaking out and was killed on February 21.

Jack Johnson was a famous boxer and had lots of influence on colored people throughout America like if he wore a red suit lots of people would because he was a cocky, rebellious influencer colored people started acting like that and it made white people nervous so they had Jack Johnson arrested.

Garrison retired because slavery was abolished. Andrew Johnson came into office and reversed everything Lincoln did for black people in the office. Then the Jim Crow laws started. Later on, William Edward went to an all-white college (Harvard) and graduated. But he was the type of guy that found justification for the segregation of colored people.

Fredrick Douglas published his story and it inspired more people to write books. Harriet Stowe's story blew up and attracted abolishist and empowerment. Lincoln was elected president and started more and more black people to be free. The south threatened to leave but ended up staying. More and more bills about blacks being free were passed. Soon enough slavery was abolished. Later on, Lincoln was killed.

Two slaves Gaberial and Nancy were planning on leading a rebellion with hundreds of laves to run away to Virginia but it ended failing. There was a society started by a Virginia delegate and an antiracist. They wanted African Americans to train themselves to learn how to take care of their motherland when sent back to Africa. Later on, Missouri became a slave state so Maine could be free.

Thomas Jefferson was sort of playing both sides with slavery. He wanted slavery to be abolished but still owned 200 slaves. There was a revolt in Hati and the African Americans won and this made the American slave owners nervous. Soon after American slaves started to become runaways and abolitionist wanted black people to learn to be proper but their idea was kinda racist.

In the few pages, I read Cotton Mantter died and his ideas still spread and laws towards colored got worse. There were no interracial couples, tax imported captives, blacks can't hold office. Those were the main laws but there were a few more.

In the book, so far they have been focused on "popular" racists but there's a group of people that are German and Dutch and rose up and killed known racists. They started an anti-slavery petition in 1688 and that was the first written antiracist thing that went around the European colonies.