Oppressed Blacks Become Leaders

After a while, people had had enough. A few brave individuals stood up and said NO MORE. After Rosa Parks was arrested for simply not wanting to get back on her sore feet, just so a white person could sit there, a spark was lit, eventually leading to the civil rights...

The KKK and Jim Crow

Two things that are defined by racism at their core are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the Jim Crow Laws. The KKK was started after the civil war to keep black people from voting for Republicans. It had a resurgence in the early 20th Century due to the efforts of...

Tuskegee

Between 1932 and 1972 the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) infected almost 400 Black people with Syphilis. The purpose of this study was to see how they would react to Syphilis when UNTREATED, even...