Categotry Archives: Women’s History
Women’s History – African American Slave Narratives
In 1619, the first slave ship arrived in what would later be known as America, into the settlement which became Jamestown, Virginia. On this ship were twenty African men and women who were the first African slaves in America. How these men and women felt, crossing the Atlantic and then settling into slavery in America, no one knows for sure. What we do know, is that soon after this began “the forcible deportation from Africa to mainland North America during [...]
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Women’s History – Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights era of the 1960’s and 1970’s in the United States was a fight against racism, segregation and discrimination of minorities, but specifically African-Americans. The movement included fighting against both official and also unofficial laws of discrimination. While there were laws of segregation on the books, many of the worst forms of discrimination were happening in less legal ways. When we read about the civil rights movement, we hear about sit-ins, Martin Luther King, Jr., marches, protests, etc. [...]
