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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.
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]
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...
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 ...
Feb. 3—Among the many designations of the month of February is Black History Month, established as "Negro History Week" in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. Woodson was a historian and his work ...
African American: Rolesville: Wake: North Carolina: November 5, 1918: Rape of a white woman: No charges were filed. [374] There is a Web site on this lynching. [375] Woodson, Joel: African American: Green River: Sweatwater: Wyoming: December 10, 1918: Argument with a waitress: Hanged in railroad terminal [376] [377] Clark, Andrew: 15: African ...
civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M. Howard: 1908 1976 United States: founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership: Winifred C. Stanley: 1909 ...
Portraits of Black Americans unveiled in Mechanics Hall. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us