by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - Bc - Slavery In America
Slavery In America – Timeline Within several decades of being brought to the American colonies, Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries. Slavers whipped slaves who displeased them. Clergy...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - BC - Civil Rights Era
Reconstruction Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - Tools - Cultural Growth
Self Assessment Tools This tool was developed to heighten your awareness of how you view people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Learn...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU, FamU - BC - From Africa to Virginia
First Enslaved Africans On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half...
by Family Voices, Inc. | Jan 20, 2020 | FamU - Tools - Cultural Awareness
Implicit Bias According to the Perception Institute: “Thoughts and feelings are “implicit” if we are unaware of them or mistaken about their nature. We have a bias when, rather than being neutral, we have a preference for (or aversion to) a person or group of people....
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