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This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans. The United States has a long history of racism against its Black citizens. [2]
List of African American suffragists; List of African-American LGBT people; List of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education; List of African-American United States Cabinet members; List of African-American United States presidential and vice presidential candidates; List of African-American United States representatives
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 ...
List of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education; List of African-American sports firsts; List of African-American arts firsts; List of African-American United States Cabinet members; List of African-American U.S. state firsts; List of black Academy Award winners and nominees; List of black Golden Globe Award winners and ...
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
This category exists to help sort out the main African-American people category, as part of the African-American people by occupation category scheme. United States portal This category lists African-American people who were/are activists for various issues (including but not limited to civil rights) .
"a consistent posture toward raising the social, cultural and economic status of African Americans" "personal achievement that reveals the best qualities of the African American people" Reference and User Services Quarterly reviewed the list positively in 2003, while noting the subjectivity in judging greatness, particularly for contemporary ...