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From the slave trade in which people were treated like objects
… to the violence against slaves 
Gordon was an enslaved African American who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March 1863, gaining freedom when he reached the Union camp near Baton Rouge. He became known as the subject of photographs documenting the scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. Abolitionists distributed these photographs of Gordon throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery.
The Tulsa race massacre 
Beginning May 31, 1921, thousands of armed white Tulsans invaded the Black section of the town, terrorizing its residents, looting their homes and businesses, and burning to the ground some 35 square blocks of the city. Before the rampage was over, more than 10,000 Black people were left homeless.
The Selma to Montgomery march 
was part of a series of protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with racist policies. In an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups. As the world watched, the protesters—under the protection of federalized National Guard troops—finally achieved their goal, walking for three days to reach Montgomery, Alabama. The historic march, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s participation in it, raised awareness of the difficulties faced by Black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act.
Rodney King, Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr, Stephon Clark, Philondo Castile, Tamir Rice Breonna Taylor, Walter Scott, David McAtee, Alton Sterling, Yvette Smith, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Botham Jean, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Trayvon Martin, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd…are names to remember. They were unique people.
