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Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.
New York: Managers of the Colored Orphan Asylum. OCLC 16788188. Smith, James McCune (1843). The Destiny of the People of Color, a lecture, delivered before the Philomathean Society and Hamilton Lyceum, in January, 1841. New York. ISBN 9780195309614. OCLC 27872624. Smith, James McCune (1846). "A Dissertation on the Influence of Climate on ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
The Colored Convention of 1843 was the first successful national convention since that held in 1835, [13] and it reestablished the pattern of regular conventions, increasing the opportunities for political and social discussions. It helped unite colored people in support of anti-slavery and actions towards freedom. A newspaper clipping of The ...
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.
Upon analyzing “millions of data points,” the WGSN’s Global Color Workshop selected future dusk as the color of 2025. When choosing a color of the year, Samba said versatility across all ...
former slave, a journalist, poet and an autodidact lawyer who defended enslaved people and was among the earlier proponents of the abolitionist and republican movements in 19th-century Brazil. Victoria Woodhull: 1838 1927 United States: suffragette organizer, women's rights leader Frances Willard: 1839 1898 United States
It carried out an apartheid programme that stripped Coloured people of their remaining voting powers. The term "kaffir" is a racial slur used to refer to Black African people in South Africa. While it is still used against black people, it is not as prevalent as it is against coloured people. [69] [70]