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The book features one-page profiles of 13 African American women written by Hansen, alongside black-and-white photographic portraits of each woman. [1] [2] The portraits were part of a poster series created by Bread and Roses, a cultural project of 1199 National Health and Human Services Employees Union.
Heroes and Heroines. 2014 A reference library ed. Chanfont Pennsylvania: African American Publications. Smith, Jessie Carney, and Linda T Wynn. 2009. Freedom Facts and Firsts : 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Canton, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. Epic Lives : One Hundred Black Women Who Made a Difference. 1993. Detroit ...
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.
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
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) [256]
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts). The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5335-3. Fullen, M. K. (1992). Pathblazers: Eight People who Made a Difference. Open Hand Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9408-8036-8. Wiencek, Henry (2000). The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White ...
civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M. Howard: 1908 1976 United States: founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership: Winifred C. Stanley: 1909 ...
In 1912, he made his way to Norfolk, Virginia, where he stowed away on the German freighter Marta Russ, [10] hoping to escape racial discrimination. Bullard arrived at Aberdeen, Scotland, and made his way first to Glasgow and then to London, where he boxed and performed slapstick in Belle Davis's "Freedman Pickaninnies", an African-American ...