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| Block infographic with three colors of blocks arrayed in rows with arrows pointing from blocks to notable dates. | |
| Legend top left: | |
| - American Slavery (pink) | |
| - Segregation (blue) | |
| - "Free" years (green) | |
| Graphic by: Valentine Barker | |
| The graphic has rows of boxes in those three colors. The slavery years vastly outweigh the others. There are three full rows (31 years) of '"free" years' at the bottom. Almost five full rows (49) of segregation years. The American slavery years count 12 rows and 6 leftover (126 years) at the top. | |
| Some boxes are in a darker shade and have text boxes with arrows pointing to them. | |
| - First block (pink): 1619 First ship of slaves arrives in the U.S. | |
| - Rightmost block third row: 1664 First interracial marriage ban | |
| - Middle of row 9: 1776 Declaration of Independence | |
| - Four blocks from right of last slavery row: 1861 The U.S. Civil War begins | |
| - Leftmost of next row (blue): 1865 13th ammendment | |
| - Two blocks right, same row: 1867 14th ammendment | |
| - Middle of last majority blue row: 1955 Valentine's mom was born | |
| - Left of next row (green): 1965 The voting right's act | |
| - Rightmost same row: 1984 Valentine was born | |
| - Five blocks from left, bottom row: 2009 Barack Obama becomes president |
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