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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-American Professor of Poetry, first African-American woman Professor and first Distinguished Visiting Poetry Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop: Tracie Morris [350] First African-American elected official to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda : John Lewis [ 351 ] (See also: 1998, 2005)
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various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.
Maya Angelou speaks during the AARP Magazine's 2011 Inspire Awards. Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King ...
This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...
African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Formerly enslaved Spaniards who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [ 1 ]
First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam. First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker. 2014
When Garrido died in 1550, other Africans, free and enslaved, had already made their mark on this new world. In 1521, a few months after Ponce de Leon died from thigh meat poisoning, Lucas ...