Black History Month Article

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  1. 3. In North America, the first African slaves arrived in this English colony in 1619.
  2. 5. This law was passed in 1964 that made segregation illegal.
  3. 8. In 1915, this became the first US state to segregate public phone booths.
  4. 9. __________ is the practice of requiring separate housing, education, and other services for people of color.
  5. 12. A period between 1916 and 1970 where 6 million African Americans left the Southern United States and moved to the North.
  6. 14. This Black institution was established in Washington D.C. during the segregation era.
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  1. 1. Lawmakers segregated everything from schools to residential areas to public parks to theaters to pools to cemeteries, asylums, jails and residential homes through this law.
  2. 2. Slavery was practiced in _________ before 1200 BCE.
  3. 4. In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a machine called the _________________
  4. 6. __________ ended up winning the civil war in 1865.
  5. 7. This is the practice of owning other people.
  6. 10. Many African slaves come from this country in Africa (a country that starts with the letter 'A')
  7. 11. The trip of African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas is known as the ________________
  8. 13. African slaves were brought to the Americas to replace this group who were nearly wiped out by diseases carried by European colonists.