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This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming (University of Chicago Law School) [37] First African-American female member of the U.S. House and Senate press galleries: Alice Allison Dunnigan (See also: 1948)
African-American history started with the forced transportation of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas , and the resulting Atlantic slave trade , encompassed a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
A total solar eclipse visible from Easter Island occurred for the first time in over 1300 years on 11 July 2010, at 18:15:15. [54] Species of fish were collected in Easter Island for one month in different habitats including shallow lava pools, depths of 43 meters, and deep waters.
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.
Black or African American alone 12.40% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) American Indian and Alaska Native alone 1.12% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Asian alone 6.00% (percent in the race/percent in the age group) Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 0.21% (percent in the race/percent in the age group)
A dream cruise vacation has turned into a nightmare for eight passengers left stranded on the African island of São Tomé and Príncipe after their ship left without them because they were late ...
Hornsby, Jr., Alton, ed. Chronology of African American History (2nd Ed. 1997) 720pp. Hornsby, Jr., Alton, ed. Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia (2 vol 2011) excerpt; Lowery, Charles D. and John F. Marszalek Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights: from emancipation to the present (Greenwood, 1992).