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African Americans – There are an estimated 43 million people of black African descent in the United States. Afro-Latin Americans – An estimation from the Pew Research Center calculates about 100 million people of African descent living in Latin America. [111]
The Great Migration throughout the 20th century (starting from World War I) [5] [6] resulted in more than six million African Americans leaving the Southern U.S. (especially rural areas) and moving to other parts of the United States (especially to urban areas) due to the greater economic/job opportunities, less anti-black violence/lynchings ...
Many African American authors have written stories, poems, and essays influenced by their experiences as African Americans. African American literature is a major genre in American literature. Famous examples include Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, and Maya ...
African American leftism; African Americans in the United States Congress; Timeline of the civil rights movement; Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Civil rights movement; American Anti-Slavery Society; Black Guerrilla Family; Black Hebrew Israelites; Black Liberation Army; Black Liberators; Black Lives Matter; Islam in the African diaspora ...
A majority of African American women worked as servants, and they were paid even less than men. In 1948, 6 out of 10 African American women worked as servants. In 1998, African Americans were one of the fastest growing entrepreneurial groups in the United States. Over half of the black population in America worked a white-collar job.
The speech therapy class was largely made up of people of color, including Black students like Smitherman, who spoke in Black English, a language spoken by many Black people across the country.
With Winfrey the only African American wealthy enough to rank among America's 400 richest people, [223] African Americans currently comprise 0.25% of America's economic elite and comprise 13.6% of the U.S. population. [224]
From 1841 to 2019, the vast majority of books telling a history of African America were written by individuals, also almost always male. [1] As the 400th anniversary of Black Africans' arrival in British North America approached, Ibram X. Kendi contemplated how to commemorate the "symbolic birthday of Black America" and the whole 400-year period.