Human occupation of the Southern United States began thousands of years ago with Paleo-Indian peoples, the first inhabitants of what would become this distinctive American region. By the time European
Selma to Montgomery marchers demonstrating for the right to vote in 1965, including Ralph Abernathy, James Reeb, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, and three of Abernathy's children, arrive in Montgomery.
Three examples of Mississippian copper plates
Etowah Indian Mounds, large Mississippian city and political center in modern Atlanta, Georgia
Herando De Soto burns Mabqila
African-American history
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African-American history started with the forced transportation of Sub-Saharan Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting At
Slave auction in Virginia
African-American slaves in Georgia
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Slave auction in Louisiana