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100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
African American History Across North Carolina; A History of African Americans in North Carolina; 1898 and White Supremacy "History of African Americans in North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. 17 August 2022; Sharpe, Cynthia (7 February 2022). "Beyond The Beach: African-American History in Coastal Carolina". Coastwatch
By the end of the war, more than 180,000 African Americans, mostly from the South, fought with the Union Army and Navy as members of the US Colored Troops and sailors. [citation needed] May 2 – The first North American military unit with African-American officers is the 1st Louisiana Native Guard of the Confederate Army (disbanded in February ...
First African-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [351] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 345 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), historian and professor of African-American history at Duke University; also a civil-rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s ; Harry Golden (1902–1981), Jewish-American humorist, writer and publisher of the Carolina Israelite; author, Only in America
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 ...
From fighting to integrate North Carolina’s schools to suing the state over laws that affected Black voters, the state chapter of the NAACP has remained a key player in civil rights activism.
This list of African American Historic Places in North Carolina is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. [1] Other listings are also online. [2]