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Although not often highlighted in American history, before Rosa Parks changed America when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in December 1955, 19th-century African-American civil rights activists worked strenuously from the 1850s until the 1880s for the cause of equal treatment.
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.
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) .
Early 19th century. The first Black Codes enacted. [citation needed] 1800. August 30 – Gabriel Prosser's planned attempt to lead a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia is suppressed. [citation needed] 1807. At the urging of President Thomas Jefferson, Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. It makes it a federal crime to ...
journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868 1963 United States: writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Kasturba Gandhi: 1869 1944 India: wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
By the end of the 19th century, two-thirds of the farmers who owned land in the Mississippi Delta bottomlands were Black. [103] African-American children in South Carolina picking cotton, ca. 1870. Hiram Revels became the first African-American senator in the U.S. Congress in 1870. Other African Americans soon came to Congress from South ...
The paintings are the first 19th-century works by African-American artists to join the museum’s collection, expanding it toward a more complete and diverse narrative. ... Adapting for the 21st ...
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th ... Pages in category "19th-century African-American people" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total.