The document discusses the history of black discrimination from ancient Africa to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It describes how slavery began with tribes capturing enemies and selling them to Dutch traders. The Civil War abolished slavery but Jim Crow laws later enforced racial segregation. The Civil Rights Movement opposed these discriminatory policies through protests like the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The document also briefly discusses the Scottsboro trials and Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.