The white abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers, especially William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th 1776 and declared our independence from Great Britain
The creation of distinctive classes in the North drove striking new cultural developments. Even among the wealthy elites, northern business families, who had mainly inherited their money, distanced themselves from the newly wealthy manufacturing leaders. Regardless of how they had earned their money, however, the elite lived and socialized apart from members of the growing middle class. The middle class valued work, consumption, and education and dedicated their energies to maintaining or advancing their social status. Wage workers formed their own society in industrial cities and mill villages, though lack of money and long working hours effectively prevented the working class from consuming the fruits of their labor, educating their children, or advancing up the economic ladder.
Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Julian Bond, Bernard Lafayette, and Charles Sherrod Created the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
<span>On this day in 1861, delegates from six states — South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana — met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new unified government, which they named the Confederate States of America.</span>
