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This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various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.
A. List of African-American abolitionists; List of African-American activists; List of African-American actors; African Americans in foreign policy; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866
List of first African-American mayors; List of freedmen's towns; List of historically black colleges and universities; List of Jim Crow law examples by state; List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction; List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000; List of U.S. communities with African-American majority ...
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.
First African Americans elected as judges in the state of New York: James S. Watson and Charles E. Toney [10] 1938; First African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and to any state legislature: Crystal Bird Fauset. 1939; First African-American woman to own a cosmetology school in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey [11 ...
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.
African Americans also have higher prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease compared to the overall average. [200] [201] African-Americans are more likely than White Americans to die due to health-related problems developed by alcoholism. Alcohol abuse is the main contributor to the top 3 causes of death among African Americans. [202]
Lists of African-American people (60 P) Pages in category "Lists of black people" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.