A presentation on the History of Racism in the US.

1. Racism in the USA
1508 – 2020

2. Slavery in America:
BEGINNING
Puerto Rico
 1508
 Ponce de Leon enslaved the
indigenous Tainos people
 1513
 Africans were imported

3. Slavery in America:
FLORIDA
St. Augustine 1565
 Spanish conquistador Don Pedro
Menendez de Aviles
 Became a slave-trade city

4. Slavery in America:
BRITISH COLONIES
The state of Virginia 1619
 ~ 19 Africans
 Jamestown, VA
 Englishmen captured a
Portuguese slave ship
 Christianly baptized slaves were
viewed as Indentured Servants.

5. Slavery in America: RACIAL DISTINCTION
A court in Virginia 1640
 2 White men & 1 African man ran away
 Whites: 4 years of service
 African: slavery for life
 John Punch  11th great-grandfather of Barack
Obama
https://www.ancestry.com/obama

6. Slavery in America: RACIAL DISTINCTION
A law in Virginia 1662
 Children take the status of
the mother
 Opposite of the English
law
 Gave slave owners more
power

7. Slavery in America:
THE REVOLUTION
 1776
 Britain had growing
antislavery views
 Americans revolted to
keep slavery
https://nyupress.org/9781479893409/the-counter-
revolution-of-1776/

8. Slavery in America:
RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM
 Blacks were not taught to read or
write
 Black women were viewed as sexual
objects
 Raped, abused
 Used for “breeding” more slaves
 Black men were viewed as
underdeveloped/infantile:
 Referred to as ‘n*gger’ and ‘boy’

9. Slavery in America:
RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM
Southerners justified slavery as:
 A necessary evil
Social and economic
consequences without it
 A positive good
Blacks are like children, lazy,
unintelligent

10. Alligator
Bait

11. Slavery in America: CIVIL WAR
Abraham Lincoln
became president
1860
Civil War began
1861
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
Thirteenth Amendment
1865“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as
a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

12. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
An American White Supremacist Hate Group
December 24, 1865

13. KKK
White supremacy =
The racist belief that white
people are superior to people
of other races
And therefore should
dominate over them.

14. KKK
Targets:
African
Americans
Anti-Catholic
Anti-Jewish

15. KKK
Violence:
• Beating up
• Burning
• Lynching
• Bombing

16. Hate is Taught

17. “Ours was not filmed”
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0cuKI9mpEY

19. Segregation in America: JIM CROW LAWS
 1870s – 1965
 Enforced racial segregation in South USA
 ”Separate but equal”
 Institutionalized economic, social, and educational disadvantages of
people of color
 Schools, transportation, bathrooms, restaurants, & drinking fountains

20. Segregation in America: JIM CROW LAWS
 1870s – 1965
 Enforced racial segregation in South USA
 ”Separate but equal”
 Institutionalized economic, social, and educational disadvantages of
people of color
 Schools, transportation, bathrooms, restaurants, & drinking fountains

21. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Rights that protect individual freedoms
Privacy
Freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and
movement
Right to participate in civil and political life of society
without discrimination

22. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Rosa Parks
1955 refused to give up
her seat to a white man
Bus boycott 1955-1956

23. CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
Martin Luther King. Jr.
Christian minister and
activist
Anti-violence protests
Assassinated in 1968
By a KKK believer

24. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964
o Outlawed discrimination based on:
Race, color, religion, sex, & national origin
o Added in 2015: Sexual orientation
o Now also includes:
Pregnancy, age, gender identification, disability, political
affiliation, ethnicity, & genetic information

25. VOTING RIGHTS ACT 1965
Guaranteed African
Americans the right to
vote
Prohibits racial
discrimination in voting

26. the
Racial
Caste
System
lives on
The New
Jim Crow

27. Rebirth
of the Racial Caste System
Prison
War on Drugs: 1982
Cocaine smuggled into US cities
by the government
Targeted black ghettos
Crack v. Cocaine

28. Rebirth
of the Racial Caste System
Blacks labeled as criminals allows
legal discrimination in:
employment, housing, education,
public benefits, voting rights, jury
duty
Americans are ashamed of their racial
history
Avoid talking about it

29. The NEW JIM CROW:
rebirth of the Racial Caste System
Rape vs. Drug charges
African Americans are
incarcerated 5x whites
A.A. and Hispanics
32% of US population
56% of incarcerated people
https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/

30. https://therumpus.net/2012/10/the-little-tolls-and-pitfalls-of-modern-american-racism/

31. Sources
Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#End_of_slav
ery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/13th-amendment
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-kkk-today/4/
Images:
https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1513-
ponce-de-leon-his-troops-his-dog.html
https://www.visitstaugustine.com/history/black_history/sla
ve_market/
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/florid
a_map.htm
https://thesource.com/2019/08/20/400-years-ago-today-
the-first-ship-carrying-african-slaves-arrived-in-
jamestown-virginia/
https://es.historia.com/magazine/john-punch-fue-el-
primer-esclavo-negro-de-estados-unidos/
http://yourblackworld.net/2016/12/19/10-dismal-facts-on-
how-slave-masters-brutally-treated-black-people/
https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/resources/slave-children-
new-orleans-1863
https://timeline.com/why-does-the-ku-klux-klan-burn-
crosses-they-got-the-idea-from-a-movie-75a70f7ab135
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2523013/shocking-
photos-from-inside-the-klu-klux-klan-show-kids-in-
hoods-a-kkk-wedding-and-a-bizarre-initiation-
ceremony-involving-a-blindfold-and-noose/
https://www.businessinsider.com/paypal-suspended-a-
ku-klux-klan-fundraising-account-2019-9?IR=T