Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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[https://eji.org/news/the-truth-about-confederate-named-schools/ by EJI 16/6/20] | [https://eji.org/news/the-truth-about-confederate-named-schools/ by EJI 16/6/20] | ||
Every day in the U.S., thousands of children across the country attend schools named in honor of Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and racial hierarchy in America. Simply by going to school, young people are taught to embrace the names, likenesses, and symbols of men who fought a brutal war against the U.S. in order to preserve white supremacy. | Every day in the U.S., thousands of children across the country attend schools named in honor of Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and racial hierarchy in America. Simply by going to school, young people are taught to embrace the names, likenesses, and symbols of men who fought a brutal war against the U.S. in order to preserve white supremacy. | ||
=====American port cities from New England to New Orleans were shaped by the Transatlantic Slave Trade.===== | |||
[https://eji.org/reports/transatlantic-slave-trade-overview/ by EJI] | |||
Between 1501 and 1867, nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved, abused, and forever separated from their homes, families, and cultures. | |||
