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The First African Baptist Church was the first African-American church west of the Mississippi River. [21] It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
African Americans are a demographic minority in the United States. The first achievements by African Americans in various fields historically marked footholds, often leading to more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for this is "breaking the color barrier". [1] [2] This is a list of African-American firsts in the fine arts ...
1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852. Josiah Henson, is the inspiration for one of the book's main characters. 1853. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown is the first novel published by an African-American. 1859. Harriet E. Wilson writes the autobiographical novel Our Nig.
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), political activist and journalist. Linda Addison (born 1952), author and poet. Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author and creative writing coach. Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA for poetry, 1999. Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist. Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet ...
John Mercer Langston is one of the first African Americans elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in Ohio. 1856. May 21 – The Sacking of Lawrence in Bleeding Kansas. May 25 – John Brown, whom Abraham Lincoln called a "misguided fanatic", retaliates for Lawrence's sacking in the Pottawatomie massacre.
Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a ...
Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, the only one published during his lifetime. It was published by Random House in 1952, and addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as ...