Major Minorities

an E-Book by Leander Rotter

Index

S. 1-2 Population of the US in general

Black History 
S. 3-4 Colonial Past & Slave Trade 
S. 5 Aportrait : Charles Ball
S. 6 Civil Rights Movement 

Revolutionists 
S. 9 A portrait : Rosa Parks 
S. 10 A portrait : Martin Luther King Jr. 
S. 11 A portrait : Malcolm X 
S. 12 Black Panther Movement 

Modern Icons 
S. 14 A portrait : Kamala Harris 
S. 15 Black Lives Matter 

Cultural Diversity

This book mainly relates to the parts of the subject matter discussed in class. However, minority diversity and the various resulting global situations encompass a much wider scope. If you are interested in more of this topic, I recommend the following books:

Ethnic minorities in China
by  Xiaowei Zang

This book mainly relates to the parts of the subject matter discussed in class. However, minority diversity and the various resulting global situations encompass a much wider scope. If you are interested in more of this topic, I recommend the following books:

Ethnic minorities in China
by  Xiaowei Zang

American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang

The invention of
the White Race
by Theodore
W. Allen

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Population of the United States of America:
an overview

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A lot of people from outside of the USA
do actually not know that most white people
in the United States are descendants
of colonists from Europe. Despite their big
presence in US-population, there also
is a large chunk of other ethnicities,
as seen in the graph below :

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This part of Inhabitants mostly consists of native Americans, or people that migrated to the country during
the past centuries. Almost all black people for example are descendants of Africans, which were protracted and held captive as slaves.

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Population of the United States of America:
an overview

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A lot of people from outside of the USA
do actually not know that most white people
in the United States are descendants
of colonists from Europe. Despite their big
presence in US-population, there also
is a large chunk of other ethnicities,
as seen in the graph below :

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US population pie chart

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Black History

Colonial Past

America had its indigenous people, but most of its modern population comes from the colonists who settled the land since its discovery in 1492. Previously mentioned natives were oppressed and partly wiped out by the colonists in the following centuries. Today, only less than 0.2% of American citizens are descendants of the actual natives.

European colonists
enslaving natives
(circa 1587)

The slave trade was a simple business: valuable goods such as mirrors, guns and spirits were shipped from Europe to Africa. Once in Africa, these were exchanged for freshly captured slaves, who were then shipped to America to work mainly on plantations. Parts of the proceeds of this plantation work were then processed locally, or went back to Europe. This whole construct is called "the triangular trade".

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Black History

Slave Trade

illustration

The slave trade was a simple business: valuable goods such as mirrors, guns and spirits were shipped from Europe to Africa. Once in Africa, these were exchanged for freshly captured slaves, who were then shipped to America to work mainly on plantations. Parts of the proceeds of this plantation work were then processed locally, or went back to Europe. This whole construct is called "the triangular trade".

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A portrait: Charles Ball

Civil Rights Movement

Charles Ball was most well known for his slave narrative the 1837 book, The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball

Ball's book

The Civil Rights Movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

illustration

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Charles Ball wearing the uniform of the U.S. Navy's Chesapeake Bay Flotilla under the command of Commodore Joshua Barney in the War of 1812

The picture above shows an aerial view of the world-shaking March on Washington, which was led by well-known civil rights activists such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The latter also gave a world-famous speech there.

Civil Rights Movement

fotograph

The Civil Rights Movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

The picture above shows an aerial view of the world-shaking March on Washington, which was led by well-known civil rights activists such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The latter also gave a world-famous speech there.

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Revolutionists of the black rights movement

portrait

portrait

Rosa L. Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.

- civil rights icon
- born in 1913, Tuskegee, in Alabama
- 1955: gets arrested for refusing
to give up bus seat to a white man
-> becomes famous for it
- Part of the march on Washington
alongside Martin Luther King
- died 2005, in Detroit, Michigan

- Baptist minister and
civil rights leader
- 1955: organises the
Montgomery bus strike
- 1963: leads half a million
people in a march on
Washington
- 1968: assassinated.

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