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  2. The Soiling of Old Glory - Wikipedia

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    It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark—with a flagpole bearing the American flag (also known as Old Glory). The image was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston , Massachusetts , on April 5, 1976, during one in a series of protests against court-ordered ...

  3. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    April 30 – In the pilot episode of Starsky and Hutch, Richard Ward plays an African-American supervisor of white American employees for the first time on TV. 1976. February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.

  4. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the fury's wake, white supremacists overthrew the city government, expelling black and white officeholders, and instituted restrictions to prevent blacks from voting. In Atlanta in 1906, newspaper accounts alleging attacks by black men on white women provoked an outburst of shooting and killing that left twelve blacks dead and seventy injured.

  5. Category:United States history images - Wikipedia

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    Images of the American Civil War‎ (1 C, ... (7 F) Media in category "United States history images" ... Edward Douglass White in Harpers.png 435 × 530; 210 KB.

  6. Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States

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    Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]

  7. Timeline of African-American firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African-American interracial romantic kiss in a mainstream comics magazine: "The Men Who Called Him Monster", by writer Don McGregor (See also: 1975) and artist Luis Garcia, in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Creepy #43 (Jan. 1972) (See also: 1975) [255]

  8. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    The Dunning School of white scholars generally cast Black people as pawns of white Carpetbaggers during this period, but W. E. B. Du Bois, a Black historian, and Ulrich B. Phillips, a white historian, studied the African-American experience in depth. Du Bois' study of Reconstruction provided a more objective context for evaluating its ...

  9. Boston African American National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Responding to pressure from black and white abolitionists and the need to bolster the Union forces, President Lincoln admitted African-American soldiers to the Union forces. 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry formed, the first all-black regiment raised in the North. Black Bostonians formed the core of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.